Most of the conflicts in the Middle East take place in Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen, but the strings are mostly pulled by ...

In a wide-ranging interview, the political economist Helen Thompson discusses how the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has ...

This Muslim country was once the center of the Abbasid Caliphate and a hub of knowledge until the 15th century. It flourished ...

Jerusalem does not belong to Turkey. Aspirations to re-create a neo-Ottoman colonial empire are nothing more than a dystopian ...

The legendary Hejaz Railway was the ambitious dream of Sultan Abdulhamid II of the Ottoman Empire, who, in 1900, envisioned a train line connecting Istanbul to Mecca. Named after the Hejaz region ...

Queen Aliya bint Ali of Hejaz (1911 – 21 December 1950), was an Arabian princess and a queen consort of Iraq. She was the spouse and first cousin of King Ghazi of Iraq and the queen mother of King ...

The Ottoman Empire decriminalized same-sex sexual ... a Fairmont Hotel in the background, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is a holy city in Islam and the site of the annual Hajj ...

At launch, the Apple Maps web beta included basic functionality like searching for points of interest, seeing ratings, browsing area Guides, and getting directions. With Look Around, the web ...

Partly cloudy with a high of 68 °F (20 °C). Winds variable at 5 to 6 mph (8 to 9.7 kph). Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable at 6 to 7 mph (9.7 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 43 °F ...

Google Maps has a lot of data on roads across the globe, and that data comes from a variety of sources. In an effort to improve data in certain areas, Google Maps is now using footage from dash ...