Buried in the deserts of the Near East, Egypt, and Central Asia, ancient libraries with troves of knowledge and wisdom have been uncovered.
Across the globe, iconic monuments and sacred sites—from Bamiyan to Palmyra—bear the scars of conflict, showing how war can erase culture, memory, and history in an instant. Here is a look at seven of ...
The patriarch of one of the most important Christian churches in the Middle East retired on Tuesday, setting the stage for new leadership as war engulfs the region.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Security measures in Iraq’s Nineveh plains have been tightened and additional army units deployed ...
Iraqi Cardinal Louis Sako of the Chaldean Catholic Church retires, paving the way for new leadership amid ongoing regional conflicts and a declining Christian population in Iraq.
Feb. 25, 2026 A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, ...