Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time ...

This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds ... trying to match the route with some of the battle maps from ...

There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the ...

A U.S. plan for Gaza seen by Reuters on Friday proposes a 60-day ceasefire and the release of 28 Israeli hostages alive and ...

Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

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Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., offered rare praise for President Donald Trump Thursday, arguing he "played the Middle East pretty darn well." Trump has received acclaim from some unusual constituencies ...

President Trump is heading to the Middle East this week for the first extended foreign trip of his second term, with stops planned in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar.

June 1, 2025 • Hamas said it was seeking last minute changes to a 60-day ceasefire plan backed by the U.S. and approved by Israel. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff dismissed the changes as "totally ...

After working on foreign policy for decades, President Joe Biden was a total failure in the Middle East. Those failures make Trump’s diplomatic work to restore stable relations tricky ...

He was effectively denouncing decades of American policy in the Middle East, playing to grievances long aired in cafes and sitting rooms from Morocco to Oman. “In the end, the so-called nation ...