For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office recently released an image of a world map displaying the full territory of Morocco. In the photo, Netanyahu stands alongside U.S. Middle East envoy ...

Last year featured an unusually large number of efforts to rearrange the ethnic, religious and political realities of the Middle East. The most visible and endlessly frustrating effort is the ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

Concerns persist over recent and potential conflicts in the Middle East, the Russia-Ukraine war and potential conflagrations ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after ...

Collecting data from a variety of sources, The Independent lays out the figures behind a conflict that has brought the entire Middle East to the brink of all-out war: The number of hostages seized ...

The last time I flew into Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, it felt like the Middle East was on the cusp of a ... what much of the world calls a "ceasefire" - with its focus on halting the devastation ...

After 15 months of bloodshed, have Israel and Hamas finally reached a lasting ceasefire? Richard in Jerusalem gauges the reaction of Israelis and Palestinians, while Yalda reports from Doha where ...

A new political landscape for climate policy in the US, set to dominate following President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next week, could jeopardise the revival of the voluntary carbon market ...

Israel and Hamas have agreed a ceasefire deal, paving the way for a possible end to a 15 month war that has upended the Middle East. The ceasefire will take effect on 19 January pic.twitter.com ...