The 1951 film features Humphrey Bogart as a mercenary American arms dealer supplying the Arab resistance to the French during ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday that Syria may be weeks away from plunging into another civil war or collapsing altogether. Rubio, who met with top Syrian officials last week ...

By allowing France to participate as a Lebanon ceasefire observer, Israel allowed it a political foothold in its former colony • Macron also turned ICC warrants into a foreign policy bargaining chip ...

It is also the former colonial power of Lebanon and has interests in Lebanon and Syria. French President Emmanuel Macron seen at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, April 14, 2025 (credit: REUTERS ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio bleakly warned that Syria appears to be weeks away from plunging into another civil war or collapsing altogether, elevating the risk of wreaking havoc across the regi… ...

During French colonial rule following World War I, Paris toyed with creating an independent Alawite state in eastern Syria, just north of the area that would become Lebanon, but the project failed.

A court in France on Friday has sentenced Mehdi Nemmouche, a 39-year-old French jihadist indicted for allegedly holding four journalists hostage for the Islamic State group in war-torn Syria over ...

Syria's ousted dictator Bashar Assad and his family were members of the secretive religious minority, ... That changed in the early 20th century during the French colonial period in Syria.

The immediate solution to the Ottoman collapse was the British and French colonial mandate systems over Greater Syria, with the French creating a truncated Syrian state after Lebanon, essentially ...