With tensions continuing to escalate in the Middle East, the United States government has now warned its citizens not to travel to Lebanon. The crisis in the region has been intensifying since the ...

Here is a series of maps explaining why. The land which would become Israel was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire. After World War ... and East Jerusalem and the West Bank ...

Of every 100 infections last reported around the world, about 22 were reported from countries in Asia and the Middle East. The region is currently reporting a million new infections about every 6 ...

These maps help explain the offensive and what is ... in the centre, and Qamishli in the east. When the uprising evolved into a civil war, the main Kurdish parties avoided taking sides.