While most tourists stick to the Nile valley, Stanley Stewart heads west into a land of oases, temples, monks and miracles ...

Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

Iraq has the highest number of palm trees and ranks fourth in date production globally, a ministry official said on Sunday.

A new study by Connecticut College provides strong evidence that palm trees once thrived in subarctic Canada, reshaping scientific understanding of past Arctic climates. Professor Peter Siver's ...

Despite its leadership in tree numbers, Iraq ranks fourth in global date production, a gap the country is actively working to ...