President Donald Trump appears to want Turkey to play a bigger role in the region, despite its poor human rights record toward the Kurds and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s long-standing antipathy ...

Monitor Istanbul.This week, we are telling the tale of two cities: Istanbul and Jerusalem. We explore how memory, resistance and street singers shape the cultural pulse of the cities from the skies ...

Evripidis Mouxouris, a 104-year-old second world war veteran, will lead the Cypriot contingent at Friday’s march to mark Anzac Day in Sydney.Mouxouris was born in Morphou in 1921 and enlisted to fight ...

What is Israel's Independence Day and how is it celebrated? In this guide, cover a short history, with facts about the ...

Muslim Brotherhood – the name has often come up in the news, most recently on Wednesday, when Jordan announced it outlawed ...

The Vatican’s relations with Türkiye during the tenure of the late pontiff Francis are marked by a crisis over the Armenian ...

In 1071, a small nomadic dynasty—named the Seljuks after their founder—fought a battle against Byzantine forces under the ...

Mike Huckabee – America’s first-ever evangelical Christian Ambassador to Israel – has – on his first day in office – visited ...

Elian Gonzalez returned to his Cuban father; Workers shout down Democrats, US union bureaucrats; Jordan annexes West Bank; ...

Pope Francis, who is in daily contact with Gazans, has consistently called for an end to the Israeli assault and for ...

Sonoma State representatives received thousands of emails criticizing the inclusion of history professor Ussama Makdisi as ...

The region around the Dead Sea (part of the Ottoman Empire prior to WWI) held enormous economic appeal ... Sea potash played ...