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

Israel completed its withdrawal from the Netzarim Corridor on Sunday, a key road that splits Gaza in half, as part of its ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Travelling through the Middle East over the course of five months to film a new series and write a book I often found myself in these otherworldly encounters. In Iraq, I sipped tea with Abu Tahsin – a ...

A new skatepark has opened in Baghdad, the first in the Iraqi capital. The park, which was opened by three organisations from Italy, Iraq and Belgium after lengthy negotiations, now provides a welcome ...

In the US, inventories were draining and firms such as Ultralife Batteries were working round the clock to produce ...

Given the foregoing, Israel should remain the only country with nuclear weapons in the Middle East, as long as its nuclear doctrine remains defensive. On the other hand, Israel cannot be asked to get ...

Hadid joined NPR after reporting from the Middle East for over a decade ... the violence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria from Baghdad, Erbil and Dohuk. From Beirut, she was the first ...

He was responsible for extraterritorial and clandestine military operations and was described as "the single most powerful operative in the Middle East" and ... arriving at Baghdad airport in ...

Israel, Lebanon and the U.S. are negotiating the release of Lebanese prisoners. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect a week ago. Hostages held in the strip and Palestinian ...

While Iran has a history of harassing and impounding vessels, it hasn’t directly launched many such attacks recently. Instead ...