The long anticipated return home for residents of the Syrian town of Tel Rifaat, displaced since 2014, has collided with a ...

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

Assad’s ouster has seen his Iranian allies end crucial oil supplies. Meanwhile, many economic sanctions that initially ...

The details of Israel’s proposed resettlement plan remain murky, but the intent is clear: remove Gazans from Gaza permanently ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for close to 8,000 years. Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of ...

The second batch of Israeli hostages set to be released by Hamas this weekend are four female soldiers, an advocacy group ...