Long before the World Cup draw was even made, local organisers in Seattle had earmarked a match in the city as a chance to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. The two teams involved in the game – Iran and ...

With Syria's new leadership emerging as a key U.S. partner, American troops in the country find themselves amid a complex ...

While the transition from the great powers era to bipolarity is well-known, the post-World War II era has impacted the Middle East crisis.

Egypt and Iran, two Middle East nations that target gays and lesbians, have complained to FIFA over a World Cup soccer match ...

Christian, Islamic, and secular/atheistic perspectives and politics have shaped recent world history more than any other ...

Flooding Egypt’s vast Qattara Depression with seawater could slightly lower global sea levels and reshape climate adaptation.

If the deal stalls, Gaza could be trapped in an unstable limbo for years to come, leaving its residents homeless, unemployed, ...

The Middle East has been a hotbed of conflict for decades, as such many nations within the region have built up their ...

IT’S impossible to grasp the full horror that the hostages snatched by Hamas endured while being held in the subterranean ...

For Israel, Kurdistan is part of its security, not a side cause. Kurdish regions in Syria, Iraq and Iran lie across the land ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

Thailand's strikes also comes after ceasefire in July and a peace deal in October which was brokered during US President Donald Trump's Asia tour.