This weekend’s assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump failed, with minimal injury. While it is not the first time that a US…

An online post went viral recently, showing Albert Einstein with what many social media pages claimed was Abdul Jabbar Abdullah—an Iraqi wave theory…

Much sensation accompanied the opening of Beirut International Airport in Khaldeh, nine kilometres from the Lebanese capital, on 23 April 1954. It…

In May 1953, Syria and Iran signed something that has been miraculously dropped from modern political discourse: a friendship agreement.Nobody seems…

French tanks fire on the British. Warplanes bomb Old Damascus. Foreign troops trade fire on the banks of the Euphrates. European flags are raised on…

When Air Force One landed at Damascus International Airport on 15 June 1974, the famous aircraft was carrying US President Richard Nixon, First Lady…

The month of June carries plenty of World War II memories in Europe and beyond. Paris famously fell to the Nazis on 14 June 1940, and on 22 June 1941…

In the spring of 1861, a special envoy for Abraham Lincoln, the newly elected president of the United States, came to Damascus. He was carrying two…

Folklore has it that a delegation of West Beirutis called on Yasser Arafat before he departed from the Lebanese capital in August 1982.For nine days,…

Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed on 2 May 2011 in a special US operation in Pakistan during US President Barack Obama's tenure. He was…