With just over a week until President-elect Donald Trump takes office, the soon-to-be second-time U.S. leader famed for his ...

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

An interview with historian Julian Zelizer about what Trump’s angry gloating over Jack Smith and Pete Hegseth’s menacing ...

“It’s a form of modern slavery,” said Damilola ... recruitment firm she had been “sold” to after a day’s journey. Once in Iraq, Agnes’s dreams of a comfortable life abroad turned ...

Assyria was a major civilization of ancient Mesopotamia—a historic region centered on modern-day Iraq. During this year's excavations, archaeologists unearthed two previously unknown shrines ...

The 'Greater Israel' map includes significant portions of modern-day Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, sparking widespread ...

Hegseth, 44, comes from a new generation of veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars ... But he argued that modern diversity and inclusion policies “divide” current troops and don't ...

"It is celebrated as a crucial moment in the expansion of Islam beyond Arabia that led to the conversion of modern-day Iraq and Iran ... But these maps placed the location within a radius of ...

Whether a President is serious, particularly one like [President-elect] Donald Trump, he says a lot of things he doesn’t follow up on. He also [...] More ...

The Sumerians, who lived in the region that is now modern-day Iraq, celebrated the beginning of the year during the spring equinox in late March, according to the History Channel. This was the ...