In the first few hours of the attacks, Israel incapacitated a regime dedicated to its destruction. The Mossad intelligence ...

Much has been made of how European imperial powers reshaped the Middle East after World War I, a transformation often said to have begun 100 years ago this week when France and Britain signed the ...

It puts the U.S. in a distinct world minority. The U.N. General Assembly, by a vote of 128 to 9, ... (You see those in the map's blue sections in east Jerusalem). Enlarge this image.

A 1602 world map created by the Italian-born Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci, which places China at its center, is on display at the Library of Congress.