The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of it? Consult the map — it's south of India and kinda sorta between ...

With dreamlike imagery and bold patterns, contemporary Iranian artists have reinterpreted the Persian miniature tradition.

People in Mexico will still see the name Gulf of Mexico, with international users seeing both names, Google said. The change ...

ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

Iran alerted the United Nations on Tuesday to what it described as "reckless and inflammatory statements" by U.S. President ...

The tech giant Google took several steps this week to keep on the good side of the Trump administration. For starters, the ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took a dig at the US President's attempts to "redraw the map of the world" by renaming the Gulf of ...

The U.S. has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The question, though, is whether this is important ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that talks with the United States were "not smart, wise, or ...

Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that negotiations with America “are not intelligent, wise or honorable” after President Donald Trump floated nuclear talks with Tehran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States “will take over” the Gaza Strip — possibly with the help of American ...