This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

For many years, the Syrian desert was an incredibly dangerous place. Experts believe the last remnants of Islamic State are still there. But are they really?

Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and name territories and boun ...

In the early hours of dawn, Turkish occupation warplanes bombed the village of Kobarlik in the western countryside of the occupied city of Girê Spi/Tal Abyad, in the Euphrates canton. Villages were ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christine Leuenberger, Cornell University (THE CONVERSATION) Maps are ubiquitous ...

Some Palestinian mapmakers, however, continue to make maps that include Palestinian named sites and depict pre-1948 historic Palestine – an area that stretches from River Jordan in the east to ...

In Hirri, a tiny village nestled between the Euphrates River and the border with Iraq ... The U.S. has a 2,000-strong troop presence in the area, which it says is solely to counter a possible ...