Walking through the burned-out shell of the British embassy in Libya in the autumn of 2011, I was asked by the BBC’s Jeremy ...

"Gladiator II" opens with a Roman fleet brutally laying siege to a city in the north African kingdom of Numidia. On the big ...

One of Libya's main refineries in the west has been shut down after clashes between local armed groups erupted early Sunday and caused fires on infrastructure, state oil company NOC said.

Archaeologists and students unearthed the 1,500-year-old ruins of huge semicircular room at a Roman bath complex in Aquileia, photos show. Photo from the University of Udine Digging into the stony ...

Painted in 1826 by Eugène Delacroix, the leading French Romantic painter of the day, Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi is one of the most celebrated French paintings of the 19th century. It was ...

Sharaa's Islamist group is stamping its authority on Syria's state with the same lightning speed that it seized the country, ...

In 1940, at the height of World War II, Italy invaded Egypt from its colony in Libya. The region later fell under the power ...

Syrians, finally liberated from the shackles of Assad's regime, savour the taste of freedom long denied. Yet the spectre of ...

US interference, at the behest of Netanyahu’s far-right Israel, has left the Middle East in ruins, over a million dead and ...

The jubilant streets of Damascus are awash with a sense of freedom. Women perform the “zaghrouta,” a piercing, celebratory ...

The magnificent ruins of Ephesus lie near the modern town of Selchuk. At the edge of the town is the great and influential temple of Diana, which, along with its many religious purposes ...