A new digital map of the road network that once connected the Roman Empire has been created, revealing a staggeringly vast ...

Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January, the term the “new Middle East” has resurfaced ...

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. [AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

Professor Tarek Masoud joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Middle East. What's the origin of the conflict between Israel and Palestine? What are the most significant ...

EIGHT YEARS ago Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi was on centre stage. Donald Trump gave the Egyptian dictator a warm welcome at the White House in April 2017. A few weeks later, when Mr Trump visited Riyadh, the ...

According to Oraib al Rantawi, Russia's role in the Middle East region decreased "after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria on December 8, 2024 and the reduction of the role of its allies, ...

Israel says that early on Sunday it launched a “preemptive” strike against Hezbollah targets . Military officials say they had intelligence that the Iran-backed militants were about to attack. Fears ...

Three Middle East conflicts have reignited, threatening the wider region. Israel is bombing Gaza, the U.S. launched strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, and Syria's civil war is boiling again. Over ...