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.

The Pentagon has long known this: until the creation of U.S. Africa Command in 2007, the region covered by U.S. Central Command, the combatant command that handles the Middle East, included not only ...

Here are 40 maps crucial for understanding the Middle East — its history, its present, and some of the most important stories in the region today.

In any case, ISIS’ out-of-area threat is no more likely to affect borders within the region than al Qaeda’s has done for the past twenty years. The advent of ISIS as a force to be reckoned with in the ...

Nearly a century after the Middle East's frontiers were established by British and French colonialists, the maps delineating the region's nation states are being overtaken by events.

In recent decades, conventional thinking has repeatedly brought the United States to ruin in the Middle East. Asking the Beltway establishment to think bigger in the region is madness.

A map of U.S. State Department travel warnings for the Middle East shows Americans being advised to steer clear of many of the region's countries or to show extra caution, with Iran and Israel at ...

It was an administrative transfer of power in 1947 that saw territories in the Gulf region change hands from the Indian ...