The Kurdish region along the Iran-Iraq border is an imposing landscape of sublime beauty this time of year. The ...

Just as geology created the conditions for human habitation in the Fertile Crescent, those same tectonic movements created the stage for today’s hydrocarbon-based conflicts.

As missiles and drones curtail energy production across the Persian Gulf, analysts warn that water, not oil, may be the resource most at risk in the energy-rich but arid region. H ...

Zozan Pehlivan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das ...