A U.S. plan for Gaza seen by Reuters on Friday proposes a 60-day ceasefire and the release of 28 Israeli hostages alive and ...

This map makes a point about what the Middle East is not: it is not synonymous with the Islamic world. This weighted population map shows every country in the world by the size of its Muslim ...

Before World War I, the British had mentally ... But fewer people realize that, in addition to creating the map of the modern Middle East, postwar European imperialists actually created the ...

Almost seven years ago, I wrote a cover story for this magazine about the coming collapse of the post-World War I Middle East map. I conducted the reporting for the story, which we eventually ...

U.S. foreign policy remains wedded to a far narrower mental map of the Middle East. Since the early years of the Cold War, the Washington establishment has viewed the Middle East as the Arab ...

Sunni-led allies of Saudi Arabia have cut diplomatic ties with Shiite Iran, further polarizing the Middle East along the two major branches of Islam. But while almost all of the governments are ...

Empires would fall, regions reconfigure, new countries form: the end of World War I overhauled the global balance of power and redrew the maps of Europe and the Middle East. Here is an overview.

it set off a chain of events that has moved the Middle East into a dangerous spiral of conflict and perilously close to all-out war. From the air and ground operation that Israel launched in a ...

Presenter: The Making of the Modern Arab World A map marked with crude chinagraph ... French plan that helped create the modern-day Middle East. Straight lines make uncomplicated borders.