Maps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East, a place in many ways shaped by changing political borders and demographics. Here are 40 maps crucial for ...

The Middle East was sliced up along lines set down in the secret Sykes-Picot agreement. But with the Islamic awakening and Arab Spring toppling regimes, the natural map of the Middle East seems ...

Archaeologists have unearthed Tharais, a mystery Christian settlement in the Middle East that has been hidden away for ...

Back in 2006, Ralph Peters came up with this fascinating map of the Middle East. It reorganized countries and territories attending to “organic” criteria rather than the leftover arbitrary ...

Donald Trump is the only person in the world who has enough leverage to break us out of this cycle.” Times Opinion writer ...

Despite the pandemonium in the Middle East, Sykes-Picot seems to be alive and well. That shouldn’t be surprising. Land borders settled via negotiation, especially when sealed by treaty, tend to be ...

The Byzantine Christian settlement has been discovered in Jordan, marked on the Madaba Mosaic Map, the oldest surviving ...

ISIS Redraws the Map of the Middle East David Rosen The recent beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians by the Islamic State (IS) has drawn worldwide condemnation and led the Egyptian military to launch ...

The New Political Map of the Middle East Patrick Cockburn. President Obama is lucky in his opponents, particularly when it comes to explaining why America’s influence is waning in the Middle East.