Biblical archaeologists are using ancient texts and modern technology to uncover possible clues to one of Christianity's ...

The Assyrians, an ethnic group indigenous to the Middle East, are a threatened minority today. Within the last two centuries they have withstood the horrors of strategic genocidal campaigns on their ...

Abu Khaled knows the worth of things. As a small-time smuggler living along the porous border between Syria and Lebanon, he has dabbled in antiquities as much as the cigarettes, stolen goods and ...

The overthrow of other dictators in the region has led not to democracy but to terror and upheaval. Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle ...