Arabs are increasingly saying they are no longer religious, according to the largest and most in-depth survey undertaken of the Middle East and North Africa. The finding is one of a number on how ...

Islam would be more than seven centuries in the future. The peoples of the Silk Road in its early decades followed many different religions. In the Middle East, many people worshiped the gods and ...

They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen ... out of the remains of the defunct Ottoman Empire. Ethnic, religious and topographical considerations were ignored or minimized.