Over the last 15 years, the Middle East has been racked by war, destruction, and displacement. Hundreds of thousands of ...

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During the presidential campaign, Trump said he would re-impose travel bans on people from the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and "anywhere else that threatens our ...

By Christina Goldbaum A showdown is gathering pace in Syria as the country’s new leaders demand that a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States disarm and integrate into a ...

Chaos theory, originally a mathematical concept, describes systems so sensitive to initial conditions that even the smallest perturbations can lead to vastly different outcomes—an idea often called ...

While some countries – Egypt and Tunisia – became democracies, albeit briefly, others, like Yemen, Libya and Syria, descended into violence. One of the most pressing questions when considering ...

Global aviation carbon dioxide emissions increased by 1% in 2023 because planes had to fly longer routes to avoid Russian ...