Xinjiang has always intrigued me as a place where cultures meet and histories converge, said Waref Kumayha, president of the ...

Part of a Crusader castle crumbled. An 18th century minaret felled. Church mosaics burned. Archaeologists are assessing ...

The ancient figure, known locally as al-Habeeb ... Others run businesses in Beirut and have opened branches in Mays al-Jabal, breathing life into the village’s economy. Also in the Marjayoun ...

Reeling from successive crises, the people of Sidon worry that the next one could come in the form of Israeli bombs. Lebanon’s FIBA World Cup journey is about much more than basketball ...

The collection of 47 photographs contains views of the city of Beirut, Lebanon and the ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra and the town of Al-Rastan in Syria, taken by Louis Vignes in 1864 when he ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Egyptian temple hidden in a cliff face. The temple dates to around 2,100 years ago and was discovered at the site of Athribis, located about 125 miles (200 ...

Edan Alexander has been captive since Oct. 7. A ceasefire went into effect at 4 a.m. local time Wednesday morning after Israel's Cabinet approved the U.S.-backed proposal to end the fighting ...

For nearly 300 years, a family’s ancestral house in India's southern state of Kerala has been the stage for theyyam, an ancient folk ritual. Rooted in ancient tribal traditions, theyyam predates ...

Like tens of thousands of Lebanon’s displaced, Hussein Mallah headed to the southern suburbs of Beirut at the break of dawn on Wednesday. The truce between Hezbollah and Israel had just begun ...

Mangled cars and collapsed buildings line the two-mile stretch of road that cuts through the center of Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut and key Hezbollah stronghold. Named after Hadi Nasrallah ...