This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The world’s next country?” ...

A joint team of archeologists from the U.K.’s Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while undertaking a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah ... in ...

It takes place against the backdrop of flaring tensions with Somalia’s federal government over a deal that will allow ...