The Atlantic's late-2007 rendering of what the Middle East might eventually look like ... I wrote a cover story for this magazine about the coming collapse of the post-World War I Middle East map.

Maps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East, a place in many ways shaped by changing political borders and demographics. Here are 40 maps crucial for ...

The Pentagon has long known this: until the creation of U.S. Africa Command in 2007, the region covered by U.S. Central Command, the combatant command that handles the Middle East, included not only ...

R esearchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon, said a worst-case scenario in which the war broadened could cause oil prices to spike to $150 a barrel, from about $85 currently.

40 maps that explain the Middle East 40 maps that explain the Middle East by Max Fisher on March 26, 2015. Maps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East, a ...

Violent upheaval in the Middle East has recently spawned all manner of maps purporting to explain how the region got this way. Here, instead, are 15 maps that don’t claim as much.