the Middle East 40 maps that explain the Middle East by Max Fisher on March 26, 2015. ... the "crescent" of land mostly includes modern-day Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Israel-Palestine.

New Contour Map of the Near and Middle East (The Land of the Five Seas). (London: G. W. Bacon and Co., Ltd.) Price 7s. 6d. THIS wall-map includes the empires of Babylon, Persia, Parthia, Egypt ...

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 ...

When Hamas-led militants sprang from Gaza last year, leaving 1,200 people dead in southern Israel and 250 more held hostage ...

In June 2018 it published images and a map of “Iranian land bridge from Tehran to Syria and Lebanon. It showed a route through Baghdad that enters Syria either through Al-Qaim or Tanf and then ...

Redrawing the Middle East map: Iran, Syria and the new Cold War. What originally brought Syria and Iran together was not the Shia sect, but Iraq – the common enemy both hated and feared ...

Middle East conflict: History in maps ... Since 1993 there have been several handovers of land to differing degrees of Palestinian control. Jewish settlers in Gaza were withdrawn in 2005 but the West ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East.

Europe, Middle East map redrawn by World War I. Skip to main content. France 24 ... Hungary lost two-thirds of its land, with Italy getting a section of the Alps region of Tyrol.

When Hamas-led militants sprang from Gaza last year, leaving 1,200 people dead in southern Israel and 250 more held hostage in the enclave, it set off a chain of events that has moved the Middle ...