Contrary to his maps, Israel did not control the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, or Gaza after its creation in 1948 on 80 percent of historic Palestine. These areas were occupied by Israel in ...

Violent upheaval in the Middle East has recently spawned all manner of maps purporting to explain how the region got this way. Here, instead, are 15 maps that don’t claim as much.

Despite the pandemonium in the Middle East, Sykes-Picot seems to be alive and well. That shouldn’t be surprising. Land borders settled via negotiation, especially when sealed by treaty, tend to be ...

Gulf countries, including Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia, strongly condemned on Wednesday the publication of an Israeli map claiming "historical territorial rights" for ...

In Washington’s ongoing debate about the cause of the continuing chaos in the Middle East, President George W. Bush stands condemned for the 2003 intervention that pushed Iraq into civil war ...