The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was ...

A new analysis by UNESCO and World Resources Institute (WRI) reveals that 73% of World Heritage sites are highly exposed to water-related hazards, such as drought, water stress, or riverine and ...

In the ongoing Battle of Los Angeles, even the foot soldiers of protest need an occasional break from the fierce urgency of ...

We knew they had because we had given them to Iraq ourselves, but Saddam got rid of them by 1995. We knew that too, because ...

Every day, ferries of all shapes and sizes glide across the waters of Istanbul, their wakes intertwining to form intricate ...

Eighty years ago, on June 26, 1945, the UN Charter was signed at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on ...

Despite geopolitical tensions, dozens of Jews, including Israelis, have journeyed to shrine in Kurdish city of Alqosh since its rehabilitation in 2022, says project organizer ...

Where do Israel, Iran and the US go from here? Will there be permanent peace or is this just a lull before a storm?

Rainforest Action Network has been campaigning for No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE) policy for years, and ...

Iraq's Embassy in Ankara has officially received 6 ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets from Turkey in a ceremony, part of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a long-lost Egyptian city that dates back 2,500 years. Located around six miles (10 km) south ...

CBS News' Seyed Rahim Bathaei has covered Iran for more than 35 years, and he expected the tension with Israel to boil over ...