The ash plume disrupted flights as far away as India.

For decades, the Middle East has been defined by war, foreign intervention, and the relentless shadow of great power rivalry.

UVA doctoral student Musa Kazim Azimli uses spatial storytelling to reconstruct an Ottoman Empire slave market.

New rail links, expanded Caspian crossings and Türkiye’s Railport terminal are accelerating freight flows across Middle ...

A database of 2.75 billion buildings could help scientists to monitor urban planning, climate change, disaster risks and even ...

The first printed Bible to include a map of the Holy Land appeared roughly 500 years ago, yet its vision of where sacred territory begins and ends still echoes in the way modern borders are drawn and ...

Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

On September 9, Israel shocked the world by bombing a villa in a residential neighborhood of Doha in an attempt to kill senior Hamas officials. It was the second time Qatar was struck this year. (In ...

Russia's influence in the Middle East has declined significantly since its 2015 intervention in Syria to support Bashar al-Assad. Moscow was excluded from a major October 13 summit in Egypt, ...

The Middle East figures prominently in the second Trump administration’s foreign policy, beginning even before Trump’s inauguration with the administration’s involvement in the January 2025 Gaza ...

The idea that Middle East peace cannot and should not advance without a formal agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is outdated and demonstrably untrue. Indeed, it has done little ...