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How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy ...
A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national transit hub. But more ...
While Syrian authorities initially blamed the attack on ISIS, a group calling itself “Saraya Ansar al-Sunna” quickly claimed ...
A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital.. The station was an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national ...
A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national transit hub. But more ...
Iranian lawmaker says Tehran considering closing waterway, described as ‘world’s most important oil transit chokepoint’.
Emirates flights from Dubai to Damascus were suspended in 2012 and resume this month Emirates is set to reintroduce flights from to Damascus from July 16, 2025. Operations were suspended to the Syrian ...
An old locomotive sits outside the Hejaz railway station in old Damascus on 23 February 2024 (AFP ... Named after the Hejaz region in the western Arabian Peninsula, home to Islam’s two ...
The Arabian Peninsula is part of a tectonic plate that is making its way north into the Eurasian Plate, and the entire nation of Turkey is getting squeezed aside. Sponsor Message.
A French-Saudi research team unearthed the 4,000-year-old hidden town named al-Natah within the walled oasis of Khaybar, a fertile land surrounded by desert in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula.
The Arabian oryx is a medium-sized white-coated antelope with striking black marks and straight horns that can reach 3 feet in length. This animal is one of the world’s most desert-adapted mammals.