A 2nd-century gate in the Old City's Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital's multilayered history -- and complex present ...

The conjecture that the Irish, like the other inhabitants of the British Isles are of Hebrew extraction has for many ...

Iran, the world’s fifth-largest oil producer and third-largest gas producer, claims its nuclear program is for civilian use.

After Israel and the de facto government of the Gaza Strip, Hamas, agreed to a ceasefire beginning Jan. 19, Gaza’s olive ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

Israel’s assault has targeted not only the ... has been wiped from the map. The Great Mosque, Gaza’s largest and oldest, survived empires but not this war. The Church of Saint Porphyrius ...

Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists M. Gessen, Tressie ...

Ahead of his largest-ever exhibition in the U.S., the dissident artist reflects on collecting jade and living below ground.

The Israeli journalist Myriam Schermer of i24News found the most appropriate words about the Bibas family, buried today in Israel ... the map, political returns to medieval or even ancient ...

Julian McDonnell, the author of Rather Splendid Pub Walks, and star of @joolzguides shares one of his favourite walks in the ...

Frustrated by a High Court injunction that prohibits protestors from occupying University buildings in Cambridge so as to ...

When David Holden, chief foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, was found dead in Cairo, Peter Gillman, his colleague at ...