The nation of Jordan is currently spearheading a tourism revival in the Middle East. The kingdom has united a group of ...

Here are 40 maps crucial for understanding the Middle East — its history, its present, and some of the most important stories in the region today. Middle East History The fertile crescent, the ...

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 ...

Violent upheaval in the Middle East has recently spawned all manner of maps purporting to explain how the region got this way. Here, instead, are 15 maps that don’t claim as much.

Similar questions confront the rest of the Middle East. ... Take a look inside our map to learn more about the region’s governments. Next: Afghanistan; Inside This Episode.

Across the Middle East, and into south-central Asia, the intrinsically artificial qualities of several states have been brought into focus by the omnivorous American response to the attacks of 9/ ...

At the U.N. General Assembly in September, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, brandished a map titled “The New Middle East” and asserted that Israel’s ties with Arab states were ...

Anderson: Conflicts in the Middle East are disintegrating region's post-World War I borders. ... and will lead to a radically different Middle Eastern map than we have known.

Middle East borders, in place for nearly a century, ... the maps delineating the region's nation states are being overtaken by events.

The Middle East’s New Map. From the author: The imminent establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and two Gulf states, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, is part of an on-going ...

With tensions continuing to escalate in the Middle East, the United States government has now warned its citizens not to travel to Lebanon. The crisis in the region has been intensifying since the ...