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In the first few hours of the attacks, Israel incapacitated a regime dedicated to its destruction. The Mossad intelligence ...
The UK has three permanent military sites in the Middle East, as well as an RAF base in Cyprus in the Mediterranean. The UK opened a permanent military centre at the Al Minhad Air Base in the United ...
A Guide to the Middle East’s Growing Conflicts, in Six Maps Violence from Lebanon to Iraq to the Red Sea all but amounts to an undeclared regional war, with Iran-backed militants fighting Israel ...
When Hamas-led militants sprang from Gaza last year, leaving 1,200 people dead in southern Israel and 250 more held hostage in the enclave, it set off a chain of events that has moved the Middle ...
As of Thursday morning, a Washington-based human rights group estimated at least 639 Iranians have been killed by Israeli ...
Maps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East, a place in many ways shaped by changing political borders and demographics. Here are 40 maps crucial for ...
Violent upheaval in the Middle East has recently spawned all manner of maps purporting to explain how the region got this way. Here, instead, are 15 maps that don’t claim as much.
Empires would fall, regions reconfigure, new countries form: the end of World War I overhauled the global balance of power and redrew the maps of Europe and the Middle East. Here is an overview ...
Much has been made of how European imperial powers reshaped the Middle East after World War I, a transformation often said to have begun 100 years ago this week when France and Britain signed the ...
40 maps that explain the Middle East 40 maps that explain the Middle East by Max Fisher on March 26, 2015. Maps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East, a ...