It seemed like we were doomed to forever have to choose between either accurate size or accurate shape without the option of having both until Patterson and his team unveiled their Equal Earth map.

A member of the Russian military police guards a checkpoint on the outskirts of Damascus adorned with portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

Dublin City Schools has unveiled final versions of redistricting maps for elementary and middle schools for the 2025-26 school year following a multi-month process and feedback from hundreds of ...

Assad's Fall in Syria Exposes Limits of China's Middle East Diplomacy By Laurie Chen, James Pomfret, Antoni Slodkowski BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Just over a year ago, China gave Bashar al-Assad ...

On all fronts, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim gives the world more of J.R.R. Tolkien’s rich history of Middle-earth by carefully crafting a story that only enhances the existing ...

But the abrupt end to the rule of the authoritarian leader so explicitly backed by Xi only last year has dealt a blow to China's diplomatic ambitions in the Middle East and exposed the limits of ...

"There is little question that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will seek a prominent role in the governance structure of the emerging post-Assad Syria," Dr. Burcu Ozcelik, Senior Research Fellow in Middle ...

The Google Maps Platform is how third-parties can develop with Google Maps, and the company is now expanding its free usage limits. As of today, the platform is used by “over 10 million websites ...

d3sign / Getty Images While it's a popular political refrain to say the middle class is shrinking, we all wonder how we compare to our neighbors and to the generations that came before us.

The historic power shift in Syria adds new layers of complexity to the Middle East crisis, with ongoing hostilities in Gaza, violence in the West Bank, and a fragile ceasefire in Lebanon. Millions ...

DOHA, Qatar—The struggle to depose Bashar al-Assad’s regime took more than 13 years, causing untold death and destruction, because outside powers turned Syria into a proxy battlefield for ...