The days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy in both long-term planning and day-to-day execution are ...

On a business trip to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in the late 1990s, two colleagues and I left work after our day’s last meeting and rode the train to New York City. As corn-fed Midwesterners, the experience ...

Across the U.S., artists and organizations have organized more than 600 pop-up events, performances, readings, and other forms of creative protest as part of Fall of Freedom, a new artist-led movement ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The small eastern city has been a focus of Moscow's grinding Donbas offensive. LONDON -- Ukraine appears at increasing risk of losing the city of Pokrovsk, an important stronghold in eastern Ukraine ...

The Nineveh Plain Region, marked in red, covers around 8,000 square kilometers in northern Iraq and forms part of historical Assyria. The future of Iraq's Nineveh province has been a subject of debate ...

The prophet’s lesson is also ours: We must recover compassion for neighbor and enemy alike, or our words will be hollow. Political discourse today is increasingly marked more by bitter conflict than ...

A 4,000-year-old urban settlement has been discovered on the road to Ur in modern Iraq. Researchers suspect the discovery represents a lost Mesopotamian city capital that was founded on the ashes of ...

Chaldea was an ancient region located in the southern part of Mesopotamia, in what is now modern-day Iraq. It was one of the oldest and most important centers of civilization in the ancient Near East.

Mike Duncan knows how empires fall. He’s covered history’s most defining collapses, upheavals, and regime changes through the Revolutions and History of Rome podcasts — the latter being a 179 episode, ...

The first day of fall is finally here, and while it still might be a little warm, pumpkin spice lattes and Halloween decorations are sure to give everyone that fall feeling. While many consider the ...

The season is known as both “fall” and “autumn.” The word “autumn” comes from Latin, while “fall” originated in 17th-century Britain as a shortening of the phrase “fall of the leaf.” While both are ...