The rebel group that overthrew longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, has received some ...

The US launched massive airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, aiming to prevent the group from exploiting the leadership vacuum left by President Bashar Assad’s ousting. Striking 75 sites with ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, whose name means Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, was the main rebel group leading the ...

Tens of thousands of suspected Isis fighters and their families are held in Kurdish-run detention centres and camps in ...

Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of ...

Whenever I think of the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad, one story about them elbows aside all others in my mind. In the early 840s, Caliph Mutawakkil badly wanted to see a wondrous cedar in the hills of ...

Our shared history can be told through the power of photography. Nat Geo's photo editors selected one image from each year of this century that capture the era's most important stories—from war ...

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during the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age of Muslim civilization. As the researchers looked over the newly declassified images, they realized they might have the chance to find the lost ...

Close-up declassified spy satellite image of al-Qadisiyyah taken in 1974 ... The battle was a decisive victory for the Rashidun Caliphate, leading to a swift expansion of Islamic rule across ...

He noted that Cold War-era satellite images are commonly used tools by ... bringing vast territories under the control of the Rashidun Caliphate and later the Umayyad Caliphate.

The battle saw the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate decisively defeat the ... which also appeared in 20th-century satellite images, to pinpoint the exact location of the Battle of ...