The air in Basra carries a strange weight: part saline mist from the nearby Persian Gulf and part acrid smoke from the ...

Attacks on civilians and infrastructure have eased in northeast Syria (Rojava) following a series of agreements between the ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

Not long ago, Iraq was viewed as a kind of hell on Earth. But the country has recovered its stability, and the government is ...

For much of the past two decades, ISIS has enjoyed favorable conditions in Syria, but since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s ...

How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was ...

Six people, including three children, were killed after a sightseeing helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York on Thursday (Apr ... Overall, the weather in New York on Thursday was gusty ...

A new theory has emerged about what caused the helicopter crash which killed a Siemens executive, his wife and their three young children in New York’s Hudson River. Agustin Escobar, his wife ...

The Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have struck a deal with the central government on running a key dam they ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, as has been long-assumed — but rather in Egypt, under ... Tigris and ...

While many have long believed it was located in Mesopotamia—between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers—a recent study suggests something far more surprising. According to this theory, Eden may have been ...

(Reuters) -Atmospheric rivers are storms akin to rivers in the sky that dump massive amounts of rain and can cause flooding, trigger mudslides and result in loss of life and enormous property damage.