Syria

LONDON: The British government has started an investigation after the revelation that some British Muslims of Pakistani origin have joined extremist groups in Syria to

What are you getting so excited about, you greasy Islamophobe? Don't we hear every day about priests, ministers and rabbis drawing guns during sermons about how the believers must make war against unbelievers and subjugate them? This one's from Syria. Video thanks to Pamela Geller.

Damascus - Rebels fighting against the Assad regime in the northwest of Syria have found an exceptional ally: al-Qaeda and hundreds of Islamists from

My Asia Times colleague MK Bhadrakumar writes of "The Rise and fall of Turkey's Erdogan" in Asia Times today. Per our July 22 discussion just posted, Turkey got the short end

The Syrian rebels’ attack on Damascus has allowed radical Islamist groups to attack Iraqi refugees, Christians allegedly loyal to the Syrian government and other civilians. Local Christians have

The bombing last Wednesday in Damascus of President Bashar Assad’s national security headquarters, the most significant blow yet to the Assad regime, was perpetrated by an Islamist group

Wednesday's attack on leading government officials could mark a turning point in the battle to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria. That, at least, is what the country's

Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well with a

Wikileaks is at it again, this time, leaking a (promised) two million-plus emails from the Syrian regime, which has in the past eighteen months tortured, raped and killed at

Turkish authorities have located the bodies of the two Turkish pilots whose jet was shot down by Syria on June 22. The bodies were found by a U.S. underwater vessel on