WASHINGTON -- The findings of the recent National Geographic Society poll of young Americans' knowledge of geography are in truth so expected that we might just mutter a bored "ho hum." We have not ...

WASHINGTON — Step over to your globe of the world, or get out your atlas, and look up Iran. You will find it to be a huge blob deep in the Middle East, bordered by Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, ...

BAGHDAD — The scars of battle remain deeply etched into the geography of Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, with thousands of homes, buildings and places of worship destroyed during the nine-month ...