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P LUMES OF SMOKE rose over Damascus on July 16th as Israeli warplanes struck Syria’s capital. Targeting the presidential ...
On June 27th the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo stood in the Oval Office next to Donald ...
FlightRadar24, a popular flight tracking website, posted a flight map on June 17, 2025, that revealed a disturbing skull-like ...
A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...
CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith received the Executive Leadership for the Middle East & Africa award at the 2025 Airline Strategy Awards ...
A video clip circulating on social media in recent months shows Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, astride a handsome ...
From South Africa to Morocco, these are the best cities in Africa and the Middle East according to T+L readers in our annual ...
Middle East in maps: Key territories in the current conflict Since October 2023, Israel has weakened its regional enemies and devastated Palestinian territories, amid international condemnation Expand ...
Drawn by European powers with little regard for the people living there, this map from 1935 still shapes Africa’s politics, ...
Professor of Near Eastern Studies Franck Salameh has been named editor in chief of The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, the flagship publication of the Association of the Study of the Middle ...
The United States maintains an extensive military footprint in the Middle East, including a number of naval assets and permanent U.S. bases. Washington’s presence has allowed it to respond to ...
A map of U.S. State Department travel warnings for the Middle East shows Americans being advised to steer clear of many of the region's countries or to show extra caution, with Iran and Israel at ...