Syria

The precedent for altering a country's name was set decades ago but the reasons for doing it can be very different

The terror group's greatest advantage lies in its "army in detention" in prisons (numbering 10,000 in Syria and 20,000 in Iraq

After Syrians experienced the brutalities of war for more than a decade as the world stood by watching, earthquake survivors say they didn't expect help this time either

A movement based on Arab nationalism took control of Syria in 1963 and went on to shape the politics of the region for decades after

Hof says that the inability to reach peace was a result of lack of will more so than US shortcomings

Al Majalla obtains Damascus Documents which reveal how Iran founded Hezbollah in Lebanon in the 1980s

The first recorded earthquake struck Antioch in 115 AD, and the city was said to have been completely flattened, killing 260,000 people

Head of Syrian Civil Defence Raed Saleh says what is needed now is fuel to power the equipment to remove the rubble and recover the bodies

With the establishment of seismology as a field in the 19th century the monitoring of earthquakes became a much more precise science