Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by ...

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

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 ...

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

Disputed map borders. Misrepresented flags ... Agreement of 1916 that split up the Middle East after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Then, Edwards says, the official looked down at the legal ...

World War II would see the empire ... north and the Ottoman Empire in the south. After that, the Russians began a long trek east, conquering new lands in Siberia and crossing the Bering Strait into ...

This is the eleventh part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some ...