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

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

Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated and ...

In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual ...

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

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she ...

Hamas has announced the names of the next four hostages it will release this weekend as part of a ceasefire deal with Israel.

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Of these, the Tigris and the Euphrates are well known and still flow through modern-day Iraq. However, the Gihon and the Pishon are far more obscure and their locations, if they still exist ...

The Akitu Festival, which dates back to at least 2000 BCE, about 4,000 years ago, was one of the most significant annual celebrations in ancient Babylon (modern-day Iraq). Held around the spring ...

politically neutral days which had a profound effect upon the shaping of modern Iraq and which can be celebrated by citizens of all religions and ethnicities. Australia Day, is however ...