Donald Trump’s pre-ceasefire social media post was unprecedented, immoral, and a diplomatic blunder for the US’s standing in the world.

A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for ...

"I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. Read more at ...

For unlike Iran, America doesn’t have thousands of years of history to reassure us that our civilisation will survive.

Increasingly angry US president escalates his threats to Iran as his deadline for opening Strait of Hormuz approaches.

THE idea that we are living in a historic, even apocalyptic, age exerts a powerful pull on the human mind. Eschatology – the theology of end times – is a religious concept, but crops up in many other ...

Roughly 4,000 years ago, a sprawling civilisation of agriculturalists flourished across a wide arc subsuming modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Communicating in a still little-language ...

Civilisations rise and fall and today I write about a serious threat facing western civilisation. Just a minute Willie, some of you may say, we thought you wrote a science column? True, but some ...

Trump’s threat to kill ‘whole civilization’ and comments from VP have raised fears.

A remarkable archaeological discovery is shedding a new light on one of history’s biggest enigmas – the collapse of central America’s ancient Maya civilisation. This new discovery – the ritual ...