Zionist militias attacked Palestinian villages, causing thousands to flee. When the state of Israel declared independence in 1948, neighboring Arab countries attacked, sparking the first Arab ...

Here is a series of maps explaining why. The land which would become Israel was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire. After World War One and the collapse of the empire ...

Israel has a decades-long history of conflict with Hezbollah but the war in Gaza has sparked a year of deadly cross-border fighting between them. We will be continually updating maps in this page ...