On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

It was 1900 when a Briton discovered oil in Mosul (whence the word muslin), not far from the legendary site of the Garden of Eden, in the shadow of Mesopotamia’s Kurdish Hills. Then the slippery ...

Born An-Nassir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyubid, Saladin was born in 1137 and grew to become the founder of the … Continue reading "How Much Did You Know About The Life Of Saladin?" ...

The acting president of the International Court of Justice, Julia Sebutinde, plagiarized large parts of her dissenting ...

Ammianus Marcellinus was a Roman soldier and historian of Greek origin. He is best known for his work Res Gestae, which chronicles the history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Nerva (96 AD) to ...

The Umayyads hastily built desert castles to protect themselves like this one ... on the Islamic world by moving the capital to their power base in Baghdad in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). The empire ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

It has been renamed in 135 CE as Syria Palæstina by the Romans who intended to dissociate ... The barren area of the region is still called The Desert of Judah Sahr a Yahuda by the Arabs. In 81 Titus ...

In pre-dynastic times at Ur in Mesopotamia, the marsh-dwellers had reed huts while the inhabitants who lived on the edges of the higher desert had houses of mud ... In the hilly parts of Syria and the ...

Syria’s transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are expected to discuss a joint defense pact in Ankara on Tuesday, including establishing Turkish ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.