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

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 ...

Syria was placed under French rule in 1922. Anti-colonial feeling strengthened a sense of Syrian identity among different ethnic and religious groups.

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.

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.