LA is on the tail end of a heat wave, with temperatures expected to cool off a bit today, into the high 80s and low 90s. Each year, heat kills more people than tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods ...

Despite being known as masters of trade, these seafarers were never a single collective. Different groups built powerful ...

TEHRAN—The Gartak ancient site in Sirvan county, Ilam province, holds the secrets of the lives of ancient people and is a ...

The world has laws and courts to punish criminal states, but they are never used against Israel, or the states that support Israel.

Rashid’s book is as much a people’s history of Mesopotamia as it is a history of objects, great personages and notable events ...

Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Rocco Palermo and his Kurdish-American team have uncovered a 6,000-year-old site in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as part of the Gird-I ...

Low water levels in the two main rivers, down to 27%, threaten the ecosystem. The situation is exacerbated by dams built upstream in Turkey and Iran. The country receives less than 35% of the quota th ...

When Bashar al-Assad fell, Syria split along the Euphrates River between Islamist-dominated government forces and Kurdish-led ...

Trump is a master of this dark art, but I wouldn’t say my Trump-supporting friends have darker personalities than my ...

Archaeologists in Iran say a decorative motif known as Gardoun-e Mehr (literary “Mithra Wheel”) or cross-like pattern, carved ...

At a time when its leadership is in question and its mission challenged, the Library of Congress has named a new U.S. poet ...

At UN, Lebanese president demands end to 'Israeli aggression'; Spain's king claims kinship with Jews his country expelled in Inquisition while berating Israel over Gaza 'massacre' ...