Almost seven years ago, I wrote a cover story for this magazine about the coming collapse of the post-World War I Middle East map. I conducted ... up of Sudan into two countries (although we ...

From ancient gods to a wandering gazelle and a slow-moving stream, there are some intriguing (and possibly false) stories behind many of the names of countries and territories in the Middle East.

Almost every Gulf state has recently upgraded its partnerships with China and other Asian countries. Amid these continual and growing transregional connections, however, U.S. foreign policy remains ...

A MAP of Europe and the Middle East on a scale of 1: 11 million ... No submarine relief is shown: water is blue. Names of countries and principal rivers and towns are in black.

millions of Syrians have fled to refugee camps in neighboring Middle Eastern or European countries. This map shows the refugees—but as Vox points out, it doesn’t depict the millions of Syrians ...

The following maps help highlight ... while those in more stable countries were the only ones to survive. In the 1940s and 1950s, the endurance of monarchies in the Middle East was inseparable ...

Above, I've tossed together a map of ... as the name implies, ally. Those five countries are Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain and Morocco. I've also labeled a few Middle Eastern countries that ...