How a picture-perfect Mediterranean village was saved from concrete — by a poet with a plan

Nail Çakırhan preserved Akyaka, a village in Turkey’s southwestern Anatolia, by reviving traditional architecture and pushing back on the concrete development reshaping much of the region.

‘Imperial Israel’ in the New Middle East

Despite a cease-fire with Hezbollah, almost daily strikes demonstrate an embolden Israel’s strategy to eliminate its enemies ...