Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud?

Syria blamed the Islamic State group — entered with a rifle and began firing. As worshippers tackled him, he detonated an ...

Scientists have unveiled inscriptions which several hundred years old in the location where Jesus Christ ate with his ...

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

After 14 years of civil war in Syria, and a devastating earthquake, mountains of rubble clog the streets of Aleppo, hindering ...

"What is happening in Aleppo is terrible, and one should not worry excessively about whether to classify the atrocities as genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity," Naimark said in an email.

It was just another bombing in a complicated corner of the Middle East, but this one was important — the Associated Press ...