The story of a divisive Islamic ruler from ancient times, produced by a broadcaster in the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has drawn rebukes from Shiite-majority Iran and Iraq. By Ismaeel Naar ...

Newroz, the Farsi-language word for “new year,” is an ancient Persian festival that is celebrated in countries including Iraq ...

The military has rules and laws and hierarchy and a chain of command. But undergirding it all is trust—trust that higher-ups ...

Newroz, the Farsi-language word for “new year,” is an ancient Persian festival that is celebrated in countries including Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. It is characterized by colorful street ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Eridu, located in southern Iraq in the heart of ancient Mesopotamia ... that included geomorphological analysis, historical map reviews, and remote sensing technology. High-resolution satellite ...

Facing recurrent cycles of terror-violence in a “state of nature,” [1] Israel must defend itself in both law [2] and strategy ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

Many nations represented here have joined in the fight against global terror and the people of the United States are grateful. The United Nations was born in the hope that survived a world war, the ...