By Clarissa-Jan Lim President-elect Donald Trump announced the appointment of his deputy Middle East envoy in a statement on Friday that didn’t exactly convey confidence in his pick. In a Truth ...

References to the pre-Islamic queen of the ancient city of Palmyra, Queen Zenobia, were to be removed, as were the names and images of pre-Islamic deities from the high school curriculum.

The conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims remains one of the central features shaping the political and religious dynamics of the Middle East. Rooted in Islamic history since the 7th century ...

In a joint statement issued by Mercer Island community leaders on the morning of Jan. 3, it was reported that individuals trespassed onto the Islander Middle School (IMS) grounds earlier this week and ...

Nowhere else do the world’s political tensions manifest as vividly as in the Middle East. The region is once again under intense international scrutiny amid Israel’s incursion into Gaza ...

It was a year that saw continued turmoil ripple across the Middle East marked by Israel’s relentless war on Gaza, the sudden collapse of one of the Arab world’s longest-standing regimes ...

Khazanah Research Institute's (KRI) latest study finds that the current classification of the Bottom 40 (B40), Middle 40 (M40), and Top 20 (T20) income groups does not accurately reflect the true ...

Thousands of middle-class families face paying £8,0000 more on their tax bill next year because of Labour raids on their pockets. Hikes in council tax and the start of VAT on school fees mean ...

Middle-income Americans ... Venessa is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School and Middlebury College. Follow her on Twitter @venessawong.

As the year ends, the dynamics in the Middle East have unquestionably shifted in Israel’s favour. The Israeli military’s relentless pounding of Hizbollah forced it into a ceasefire agreement ...

Adam received his master's in economics from The New School for Social Research and ... Dennis Madamba / Investopedia The middle class is a socioeconomic category used to describe people and ...