The roots of the Iran-Israel standoff lie in the seismic shift of 1979, when the Iranian Revolution overthrew the Shah and ...

Caption A partial map of West Asia, which includes Anatolia (present-day Turkey), the Northern Levant, and the Southern Caucasus. An international team of researchers showed populations from ...

Forests and woodlands of West Asia occupy only 3.66 million hectares or 1 percent of the region's land area and account for less than 0.1 percent of the world's total forested area. FAO sums the ...

THE issue of this map occurs at an opportune moment. Public attention has been much directed lately to the once fertile strip of country that lies between the deserts of Arabia on the one hand ...

In Israel, supported by the United States, there is growing conviction that the current context presents a unique opportunity to redefine the political map of West Asia. This strategic shift aims to ...

And the geopolitics of West Asia suggests that the troubled, chaotic countries from where the IS emerged are likely to continue being troubled in the near future. Till now a common enemy had ...