The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 laid the groundwork for the region’s present borders (see map 1). It largely ignored ethnic or sectarian differences, contributing to the Middle East’s ...

it set off a chain of events that has moved the Middle East into a dangerous spiral of conflict and perilously close to all-out war. From the air and ground operation that Israel launched in a ...

A MAP of Europe and the Middle East on a scale of 1: 11 million has been published by the Royal Geographical Society on behalf of the British Council. The map is drawn on Murdoch's third conical ...

ANY CONFLICT in the Middle East involves a complex web of allies ... have been amassing higher-quality weapons over the past decade. Our maps show the capabilities of their arsenal.

LONDON, April 19 (Reuters) - Reports of an Israeli attack on Iranian soil that possibly drags the Middle East into a deeper conflict has jolted world markets with geopolitical risks that can ...

Tensions are rising in the Middle East. Iranians take part in a protest against the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the political head of Hamas, in Palestine Square in Tehran, on July 31, 2024.