Western Asia

Laylit, New York's celebration of dance music from diasporic SWANA communities, comes to Sleeping Village for one night.

The Cradle | Tehran has warned that any such action 'would have severe consequences for those countries.'

A study of the inner ear bones of Neanderthals shows a significant loss of diversity in their shape around 110,000 years ago, suggesting a genetic bottleneck that contributed to Neanderthals' decline.

Learn more about the newly identified fungus that is taking over spiders and why it's similar to the Cordyceps fungi that infects ants.

Paleoanthropologists have found 1.95-million-year-old cut-marked bones that appear to have been made by early hominins using stone tools at the site of Grăunceanu in Romania.

Black seed oil claims many benefits, including healthier skin and hair. We consulted dermatologists and tested to find the best black seed oil products.

Lebanese civilians began flooding south back to their homes after a cease-fire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah came into force early Wednesday.

Plan a Little Arabia food crawl in Anaheim with Dubai chocolate bars, knafeh, falafel and more.

An essay on the quiet power of feeding each other through personal grief, burnout, community organizing, and global struggle.

Hamas said it was sending to Egypt a delegation for cease-fire talks, marking a sign of progress in attempts by mediators to work out an agreement between the militant group and Israel.

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A March 2024 Instagram post accurately reported Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told Tucker Carlson in an interview that Italy has an "ancestral right" to all of Europe, North Africa and Western Asia.

They are great for humans. Animals? Not so much.

Wooden tablets containing a language of glyphs called Rongorongo may be evidence that the people of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, created their own writing system without the influence of European language

Homo erectus may have crafted these stone tools 1.4 million years ago in what is now Ukraine.

There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in the Americas, Oceania and eastern Asia, where it is introduced.

Denis Villeneuve is one of the best directors working today, with Dune: Part Two being his latest movie. How does it compare to the rest of his filmography?

Britain and Germany are among those expressing grave concerns about Israel's call for a "massive operation" in the southern Gaza city and to remove civilians from the area.

As the song 'Stayin' Alive' rang through the stadium, South Korea somehow found a way to do just that to advance to an Asian Cup quarterfinal meeting with Australia.

Periods of cold and severe plagues overlap in a new study of ancient Roman climate.