Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned for five centuries. They ...

The Americas, Australasia, Asia, Europe and Africa have already been marking the arrival of the new year with fireworks and festivities.

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John McCain was the dominant political figure in Arizona. Jeffrey Goldberg and George Packer discuss how quickly the state shifted from McCain Republicanism to Trumpian Republicanism.

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Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al-Sudani inaugurates the stone lining project for the left bank of the Tigris River along Sindbad Road in Baghdad. According to a brief statement from the Prime Minister's ...

However, Shay is definitely one of the most interesting ... The city of Baghdad is a superb setting and is brilliantly realized and beautiful, crammed with things to do and discover, and making ...

Army veteran Shawn Patterson knew it was time to turn his life around when he woke up in the driveway in 2020, with 5 police officers on top of him.

As in Pain and Glory, the past erupts onto the screen with even more sensory intensity than the present, in Martha’s recollections of an encounter with a Carmelite friar in war-torn Baghdad who ...

Iraqi security forces gather outside a morgue of Sheikh Zayed Hospital in Baghdad, Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, where a U.S. citizen who worked for an international aid organization was taken after he ...