If wars and disasters shake ideas and convictions, how has no proposal that goes beyond immediate policy been put forward as this war rages on? The Levant is disintegrating, to say nothing about the ...

Maria Abi-Habib was a roving Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, focused on terrorism issues and jihadist groups such as al Qaeda and Islamic State. She had been based in Beirut and ...

Hours after Pope Francis’ death was announced, Israel's Foreign Ministry posted a short message on X: “Rest in peace, Pope ...

F or miles around, as far as the eye can see, the eastern suburbs of Damascus are a sea of undulating rubble and skeletal ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

We find surprisingly little direct genetic contribution from levantine phoenicians to western and central mediterranean punic ...

Lebanon's parliament on Thursday passed a new banking secrecy law allowing authorised entities to access records from the ...

When we think of the lost wax process, the images that perhaps come to mind are Ancient Greek bronze sculptures or the works ...

A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Members of Gaza's tiny Christian community said they were "heartbroken" on Monday at the death of Pope Francis, who ...