All these rules are known as International Humanitarian Law (known as IHL) or the Law of Armed Conflicts and are intended to mitigate the horrors of war. People flee following Israeli air strikes ...

Since 2012, after the outbreak of civil war, they have run it as a self-declared autonomous region, protected by Kurdish-led armed forces. But Bashar al-Assad's regime never recognised it and ...

“We want to see if we can bring that war to an end. Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance.” Asked about concessions, Trump said: “We will be talking about land. We will ...

There are threats from both sides, and each have powerful allies that swiftly moved to the brink of action, until what’s left is a war that involves everyone the world over. Now, let’s rewind.