Importing almost all of its fuel, Japan springs into action after every major energy shock to reassess its supply sources, making it a bellwether of global trends. Its direction this time? Run away ...

Alerted by a history enthusiast, ​archeologists in the Swiss canton of Vaud used a drone to take daily images of fields ...

For most of the history of cancer genomics, the map of our knowledge has had blank spaces on it. In the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes, for example, roughly three quarters of donors were of ...

Reducing dependency on the Middle East would be easier if overall Japanese oil demand drops further, writes Javier Blas.

The Ou Mountains, Hida Mountains, Kii Mountains, Chugoku Mountains... When mountain names appear in geography for junior high ...

All this expansion and convergence make the very expression Middle East —once defined by a Levantine fulcrum, Ottoman past, Arab culture, and perennially insoluble Israel—Palestine conflict—no longer ...

Israel is not merely entering southern Syria. It is testing how far it can redraw the map before the world decides that enough is enough.

For decades, the world acted as though the Middle East could not move until Israelis and Palestinians made peace. The Middle East has moved on anyway, including Israel. This means Israel is no longer ...

In offices across the military and in the intelligence community, there have been recent quiet discussions about cutting the number of people and facilities typically stationed in the Middle East if ...

The Middle East is no stranger to conflict. But even by its standards, the last six months have been extraordinarily chaotic. Ever since the United States and Israel went to war against Iran on ...

The battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz is part of a jigsaw puzzle that, once put together, will depict the post-war political map of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa and their regional ...

Dirty Monkeys’ war comedy-drama “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” took command of the mainland China box office during the Aug. 14–16 weekend, grossing RMB477.9 million ($70.3 million) over the ...