A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

This principle is exemplified by the importance of the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Israel cannot allow its enemies to ...

The Abraham Peace Accords consist of multiple agreements signed between Israel and several Arab states which encourage a ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee ...

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Only two short weeks ago, around the time that the ceasefire came into effect in Gaza, even Al Jazeera was lauding Donald ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Jordan will take steps toward jointly combating Islamic State in the region and they aim to hold a ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.