Behind gilded gates and iconic façades, power architecture is diplomacy's silent language. These are the private sanctuaries ...

What motivated the smashing on April 23 of the main gate to Damascus’s historic Jewish cemetery and the digging of a pit disturbing the tomb of renowned mystic Rabbi Hayyim ben Joesph Vital? The desec ...

It’s festival season in Northern Nevada! The summer fun kicks off this weekend with the Reno River Fest and runs through early September, when Burning Man wraps up. The RN&R’s ...

Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly ...

Egypt wants the development to help increase the value of state assets and boost land prices through "non-traditional, ...

Few travelers venture into that 90 percent. The vast Western Desert, which blends into Libya and beyond, is Egypt’s great unknown. Adventurers since Alexander the Great have braved the harsh ...

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt unveiled plans today to build a desert city that will see about 7% of Egypt’s annual Nile River quota rerouted from fertile delta land to pass by upscale glass-fronted ...

CAIRO - Egypt on June 1 unveiled plans for a vast new urban development west of Cairo where a man-made channel of the River Nile will eventually wind through what was once arid desert. The new ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — As news filtered out of Egypt on Thursday (May 29) that a court ruling had called for nationalizing an ancient Orthodox Christian Monastery in the Sinai Desert and the eviction ...