His new novel, The Human Scale, he says, is an attempt to tell the story of Israel and Palestine in a way that his reporting never could, following a Palestinian American FBI agent investigating a ...

Phillips chronicled his background, the Iraq incident and his post-service struggles in the book, “The Fifth General Order: A ...

The conflict between Israel and Palestinians — and other groups in the Middle East — goes back decades. These stories provide context for current developments and the history that led up to them.

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official ...

share their story from Gaza where, like the stories coming out of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, are the stuff of nightmares. Children are paying the highest price for a conflict they ...

It's called the build up. Here, you build up the main body of the story. A plot will always be engaging if you add in a conflict, a fight or a mystery to solve. It seems that the evil wizard in ...