Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

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 ...

Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sasanian Empire of ancient Persia ... that led to the conversion of modern-day Iraq and Iran, and then into the rest of the Middle ...

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 festivals ...

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 ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic ... been uncovered by archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, shedding light on ...

Facing recurrent cycles of terror-violence in a “state of nature,” [1] Israel must defend itself in both law [2] and strategy. Though generally unacknowledged, this dual-level defense could prove ...

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

Before modern borders, before passports, before Google Maps—these Middle Eastern countries were already thriving. From ancient civilizations ... we’d be today? Iraq, aka Mesopotamia, didn ...

A German firm began, but did not complete, the construction of the Bushehr complex in 1975, and the reactors had been damaged during the Iran-Iraq War ... custodian of an ancient, great Persian ...