The legend of the lost tribes grew not because the tribes vanished, but because the biblical record leaves their fate open-ended. Judah’s scribes shaped Israel’s story after the northern kingdom fell, ...

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This year was one of the most violent on record for Israeli civilian attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, according ...

Separatists in southern Yemen are accusing Saudi Arabia of targeting their forces with airstrikes. The Southern Transitional Council says the strikes happened in Yemen’s Hadramout governorate.

Jews including Elie Wiesel (lower left) were leading forces in the Save Darfur Coalition in the mid-2000s. Today’s Jewish leaders, in the face of a new crisis in the region (upper left), have been ...

So it is worth studying the last time America took over 2m sparsely populated, richly endowed, strateg­ically located square kilometres. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson pulled off the Louisiana ...

Israel is planning to expel residents of the ancient West Bank town of Sebastia to create a national park for settlers.

Within hours of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator, fleeing Damascus in December last year, Israeli troops were on the move. They occupied territory in southern Syria stretching from the highest ...

Israeli authorities are encroaching on the ancient site of Sebastia in the West Bank to create a tourist attraction aimed at settlers, raising worries of the displacement of Palestinians.

Bashir’s reign and 14 years after the founding of South Sudan as an independent country, Darfur is again descending into chaos.

The Universities Act is back in the news – this time with the present government’s attempt to reform it through a proposed ...

In the U.S., there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native entities, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. As for Louisiana, the state is home to more ...