The Kurds call this area Rojava, “the west”, Western Kurdistan. The term itself is a quiet map of a wider Kurdistan and a condensed national claim. It is exactly the kind of self-definition a state ...

Though Israel is barely the size of New Jersey, and appears miniscule on a map of the world, Stauber’s vast photographs show ...

Last December, nearly two feet of snow blanketed Mount Hermon, home to Israel’s only ski resort.The post First snow falls on Mount Hermon in Israeli Golan Heights appeared first on ...

As the world looks to Gaza, settlers in the West Bank are seizing land and terrorizing villages with impunity.

Michael Paul Searle is Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he talks about mountains, maps — and when the twain meet: What is the core of ...

Satellite imagery analysis by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad shows that the Israeli army holds about 40 active military positions in the part of the Gaza Strip outside the yellow line, the ...

The nation’s largest teachers' union sent a mass email to its members containing a map that erased the state of Israel and labeled the area "Palestine," along with materials supporting Hamas’ barbaric ...

After a series of devastating airstrikes, the Israeli military is sending its ground forces into Gaza City, causing thousands of Palestinians to flee and escalating a humanitarian crisis in the region ...

JERUSALEM, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Israel's far-right finance minister said on Wednesday that maps were being drawn up for annexing territory in the occupied West Bank, land the Palestinians seek for a ...