Month: August 2025

Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam and home to Islam's two holiest shrines in Mecca and Medina. The king's ...

Ruled by the Al Thani family since the mid-1800s, Qatar within the last 60 years transformed itself from a poor ...

The inhabitants of the area of present-day Oman have long prospered from Indian Ocean trade. In the late 18th century, ...

As a result of its location at the crossroads of three continents, the area that is modern-day Lebanon is rich ...

Kuwait has been ruled by the AL-SABAH dynasty since the 18th century. The threat of Ottoman invasion in 1899 prompted ...

After World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the League of Nations awarded Britain the mandate to ...

Israel has become a regional economic and military powerhouse, leveraging its prosperous high-tech sector, large defense industry, and concerns about Iran to ...

Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq was occupied by the United Kingdom during World War I and was declared ...

Known as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown and Shah ...

The Gaza Strip has been under the de facto governing authority of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) since 2007 and ...

In 1783, the Sunni AL-KHALIFA family took power in Bahrain. In order to secure these holdings, it entered into a ...