Our seven maps below illustrate how Syria became a ... and Aleppo were separate administrative provinces within the Ottoman empire. These regions, or vilayets, were important to the empire for ...

Or is every bomb dropped, every missile launched, every bullet fired at children by Israel’s snipers, every threat to commit ...

This principle is exemplified by the importance of the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Israel cannot allow its enemies to ...

The "Armenian Smyrna/Izmir The Aegean Communities" volume was the outcome in a series of research topics explored in ...

Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

The peaceful region has a population of just 11,000, scattered across small villages clinging to the sides of the mountains ...

Until recently the most that people tended to know about cold and sparsely populated Greenland is that it is not small and also that it is not Iceland. It’s a frigid autonomous territory of Denmark, ...

Britain took control of the area known as Palestine in World War One, following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, which had ... Hamas fighting in Gaza? Gaza in maps: How a year of war has ...

Spectator “Erase a people’s past, and you control their future.” – George Orwell The collective understanding of its history ...

Eleven works from the Vatican Apostolic Library are featured in the second Islamic Arts Biennale, held from January 25 to May 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. They include ancient translations of the Quran ...