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Pope Francis, who is still recovering from treatment for bilateral pneumonia, greeted crowds gathered in a tulip-filled St Peter's Square for Easter Sunday before his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" speech.

This ancient people lived in the Sahara when it was a much more welcoming environment.

3-year-old Israeli Ziv Nitzan discovered a 3,800-year-old Canaanite amulet during a family trip last month at Tel Azeka, according to the IAA.

The unthinkable in the troubled Middle East happened in 2024, with a major geopolitical shift after the stunning collapse of the Syrian regime at the hands of Islamist rebels.

People in Syria are looking for their relatives and friends in prisons, hospitals and morgues. The U.N. estimates over 100,00 people have gone missing in Syria under the Assad regime.

Russia's 2015 military intervention in Syria was a bold assertion of its great power ambitions, rescuing Bashar al-Assad's regime and projecting influence in the Middle East. However, recent...

ROME, Dec 09 (IPS) - Nobody saw it coming. After years of brutal war in Syria, many believed the battle lines had stabilized, leaving only sporadic skirmishes or even the potential for negotiations.

The country's civil war is over—but there's no stability to restore.

As armed rebels have advanced at lightning speed in recent days from the north of Syria toward the capital, Damascus,

Amid a rapid-fire collapse of Syrian, Hezbollah, Russian and Iranian forces in northern Syria, questions are surfacing about U.S. policy toward the emerging new order in the war-ravaged Syrian Arab Republic.

The tools used to make threads could have seeded concepts that eventually led to the wheel.

Northwest Africa played a role in spreading civilization west of Egypt into southern Europe.

The killing of 12 people, including several Hezbollah members, and the wounding of thousands more when 5,000 pagers simultaneously exploded in Lebanon yesterday represents an obvious tactical tri

Phaedra Darwish talks about reclaiming stories and dance from across the Middle East for Night out in the Parks.

Without a secure Europe, the United States risks becoming a hemispheric potentate on the margins of the world.

A gooey, melty cheese dish topped with pastry and soaked in sugar syrup.

How man went from bumbling around in savannahs to building the Great Wall, and why China fell behind Europe

You don't need to read the news or scroll through Instagram for long to stumble across the latest example of a rare and beautiful species that has gone extinct. Since AD1500, at least 705 vertebrate species and 571 plant species have died out.

A rocket attack Saturday on a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights killed at least 10 people and wounded several others, including children, hours after an Israeli airstrike on south Lebanon killed three members of the militant Hezbollah group.