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

Damascus residents on Tuesday (December 31) were preparing to welcome the New Year for the first time since the ousting of ...

Nobody is certain how many people died during the First World War. Historians estimate anything between 15 and 22 millions in ...

As the war in Gaza rages, Syria's government transforms, and the Israeli-occupied West Bank seethes, Armenian residents of ...

Jerusalem does not belong to Turkey. Aspirations to re-create a neo-Ottoman colonial empire are nothing more than a dystopian ...

Gazans can in many ways be thought of as a separate ethnicity from West Bank Palestinians. This is because Gazans have ...

From a Mediterranean shipwreck to a mosaic on display in Washington DC, these are the discoveries that made scholars of the ...

The hours of 2024. It's a cliché, but it has flown by again. Like last year, 2024 was characterised by turmoil in Europe and ...

At a time when many millions of Christians around the world continue to be vulnerable to attacks by religious bigots and extremists, it is encouraging that in the modern-day State of Israel, where ...

Syria's civil war left one of the world's oldest synagogues partially destroyed. Now Syria's handful of remaining Jews are ...

Rain marked a sombre Christmas morning in Darwin as hundreds gathered on the shore to remember those who died in Cyclone ...