For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017.

For Mansfield girls basketball coach Brooke Brittain, a chapter of Jim Brennan’s ‘The Art of Becoming Oneself’ took on new meaning.

Maine artist Robert Shetterly's “Americans Who Tell the Truth" exhibit at the Albany Institute of History & Art celebrates ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

In 2nd Tour, Peter van Agtmael, 28, chronicles his tours as an embedded photographer with US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006 to 2008. He photographed night raids in Baghdad, war-torn ...

And it looks like 2025 will be just as exciting. Here are some of the must-visit exhibitions to keep an eye out for around ...

Half a century after her death, Umm Kulthum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn cafes in Iraq, and in ...

Look and see: a number of films this in year’s selection—including Atropia, The Stringer, and others—grappled with the ethics ...

Under the terms of the fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal , fighting will be halted in Gaza for at least six weeks. Dozens ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that his county’s military might not withdraw all of its forces ...

February is the shortest month of the year, so none of the books we’ve suggested are particularly tome-like in form. Instead, ...

The Army helicopter that collided with a passenger plane above the Potomac River boasted an experienced crew doing “an ...