The start of a new year has a way of slowing us down, even if briefly. It invites reflection, not in the form of resolutions that rarely survive January, but in quieter questions about direction, ...

Airlines reroute, cancel flights as tensions ramp up over Iran Airlines have been rerouting and cancelling some flights across the Middle East as tensions ramp up between Iran and the United States, ...

Was a new regional power, once thought of as a bloodthirsty invading force, actually a catalyst for ancient Egypt’s most prosperous era? Egypt’s carefully recorded lists of rulers run pharaoh after ...

How Syria's Sharaa captured Kurdish-held areas while keeping the US onside The Syrian government's rapid takeover of territory long held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces took shape in a ...