West Asia is a region where history meets the modern world. It sits at the crossroads of three continents: Asia, Africa, and ...

Ancient Greek mercenaries under Xenophon clashed with mountain tribes linked to the ancestors of the Kurds in 401 BC.

Lions of Mesopotamia coach on Play-Off Tournament targets, social media bans and putting Iraq back on the global map.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 years after they were originally discovered. Omens on the ...

For India, the Strait of Hormuz is more than a distant flashpoint; it is a vital economic artery. New Delhi’s stakes in the ...

The name “Hormuz” originally belonged to a port city rather than the waterway itself. The medieval port of Hormuz sat along the southern coast of present-day Iran before later shifting to a nearby ...

Maybe, in his Princeton days, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth read the ancient historian Thucydides’ famous contention that might makes right. But, as he demonstrated in his pumped-up Pentagon briefing ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence suggesting that Christians co-existed with a now-little-known religion in modern-day Iraq. The discovery, announced by Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany ...

Regardless of how some people of the Iranian diaspora in the West envision a lost golden period for Iran, the country has always been porous, just like every other nation on the earth. When ...

I’m floating in an infinity pool high up on Korek Mountain in the Kurdistan Region. A little more than 42 miles away through ...