Iraq is set to become a hot zone of proxy fighting between Turkish-backed Islamist militants and Iranian-backed ones.

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Instead, they are spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Kurds have been struggling for autonomy for more than a century, and all four of these countries in one way or another have denied ...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate is breaking off horizontally with a tear progressively ...

This principle is exemplified by the importance of the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon. Israel cannot allow its enemies to ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Karachi: Pakistan has initiated discussions with Iran to establish a tourism route, as the country aims to gain access to a land route connecting Turkey and Europe through Iran, ultimately ...

No such location is depicted on current maps, for the old Kurdistan now falls within the sovereign space of four separate states: Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. Most Kurds – some 25 million – ...