The researchers used a technology known as LiDAR to map the city of Jerash. It's helping them understand its past, as a growing modern city encroaches on the well-preserved ancient site.
Two weeks after the wave of protests and deadly clashes at the Israeli border, many Gazans are wounded and feeling like the demonstrations didn't bring any tangible benefits.
It's a technique that is revolutionizing archeology, and shows that the ancient site is under threat from the expanding modern city around it. The ancient city of Jerash is world famous.
Ahmed Alaa describes hoisting a rainbow flag at a concert in Cairo as the "best five minutes of his life." Now he faces years in prison and says his family and his life have been destroyed.
Two weeks after parliamentary elections delivered a surprise win for allies of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's divided political leaders are scrambling to put together a coalition government.
As signatories to the Iran nuclear deal meet in Vienna to discuss next steps after the U.S. exit from the deal, NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Simon Gass, one of the key negotiators of the deal, about the limits of U.S. sanctions.
Signatories to the Iran nuclear deal will meet with their Iranian counterpart in the first such gathering since the United States pulled out of the deal. The meeting will assess what can be done to keep the deal going.