Here’s the disturbing reality behind the New Year’s Day ISIS-inspired assault in New Orleans: Military officials and national security insiders fear that a perfect storm is forming around the world ...

It’s many years since ISIS, also known as Islamic State, held sway over much of Syria and northern Iraq a time when it ...

With the help of declassified spy satellite images from the United States, a team of archaeologists from the United Kingdom’s […] ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

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The Middle Eastern country had been ruled by outside powers and dictators for centuries before its revolution was realized.

Hafez al-Assad is welcomed in Moscow by Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in 1971. Bettmann/Corbis Syrians gather outside Deraa’s main courthouse, which was set on fire by demonstrators demanding ...

The British oil giant has a long history with the second-largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which holds the world’s ... s step by BP and Iraq follows a ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.

Iraq’s Christian minority, one of the oldest in the world, faced persecution under the rule of ISIS, with many members of the community forced to leave behind homes and churches the extremists ...

The fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad overturned the most profitable drug-smuggling network in the Middle East, exposing the former regime’s role in manufacturing and trafficking pills that ...