Middle East

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Mehmed VI, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, leaving the country after the abolition of the Ottoman sultanate, 1922
The Long End of the Ottoman Empire
people with palestinian flags and people holding flags of Israel
The United States and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Historical Perspectives
Israeli soldiers stand around their tanks during the Yom Kippur War.
The Yom Kippur War and the OPEC Oil Embargo
Paratroopers of teh 2nd RPC firing a 106 mm SR recoilless gun at an Egyptian resistance point on an Egyptian resistance point in Port Said
The Suez Crisis (1956)
Ottoman Empire (1256), Europe (67), Colonialism/Imperialism (1289), Middle East (142), Islam (154)
Süleyman the Magnificent
Secretary of State John Kerry continued his meetings in Lausanne with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif. Under Secretary Wendy Sherman and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz are participating in the meetings.
Iran’s Nuclear Diplomacy
Israeli troops during the battle for the Sinai
The Suez Crisis (1956)
Flag of Israel with landscape of Israel in the background
Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II
Emperor Süleyman
Süleyman the Magnificent
The port of İzmir, pictured here in 1883, was an Ottoman quarantine station.
Pandemics in Ottoman History: Plague, Cholera, and Influenza
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq
Iraq's 1920 Revolution
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.
The Justinianic Plague
The statue of Saddam Hussein topples in Baghdad's Firdos Square on April 9, 2003.
Breaking the Trust: Relation Tensions Between Iraq and the US
2,000 Israelis in Tel Aviv protest a proposed coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis
A Kurdish woman with her granddaughter at a 2017 Nowruz (Persian New Year) celebration.
The Fate of the Kurds
A manuscript image of Pope Innocent IV excommunicating Emperor Frederick II at the Council of Lyon.
Medieval Public Relations Battles
Greek troops with a machine gun during the war
The Greco-Turkish War
Two women in black hijab in Yemen
Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War
Thousands of protesters in Yemen's capital city, Sana'a, in 2011.
Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making
a rocket being launched in the Middle East
War and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Today & Yesterday
An image of Kuwait’s oil fields after they were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the First Gulf War
Oil Empires and Petro-Anarchies
A shopkeeper sits outside his store in the Cardo waiting for tourists and residents to stop in.
A Postcard from Jerusalem
Abovian Among the Kurds, painting by Mkrtich Sedrakyan, 1950. (Image from author's personal collection, courtesy of the Khachatur Abovian House-Museum, Yerevan, Armenia.)
Top Ten Origins: Russia’s Relations with the Kurds
Palestinians during the first intifada, 1987. (Photo by Peter Stepan)
The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War