The largest cavalry charge in history broke the 1683 Siege of Vienna, effectively ending Ottoman expansion into Western ...

After November 1918, the Ottomans were the last monarchy left standing, but occupation, partition plans, and a rising nationalist movement made the sultan’s position untenable. This story traces the ...

One of the last European countries to shake off communism, Albania's capital has a certain charm with wide avenues and ...

Witness the final siege of Constantinople in 1453, as Mehmed II’s massive Ottoman army and cannons finally breach the legendary defenses, ending the Byzantine Empire and changing the course of history ...

Syrian Kurdish forces have lost control of big parts of the country this month as government troops under President Ahmed ...

On December 13,1946 Jawaharlal Nehru enunciated the defining vision of what the soon-to-be sovereign country should look like ...

Qatar Museums has announced the launch of the Lusail Museum Conversations, an ongoing series of public lectures and events. The ...

The Kurdish people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without their own country. Many are native to the region where four countries — Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey — meet and share ...

Painted amidst a raging war, the Our Lady of Victories icon is now a traveling source of grace for service members.

The symbol of Western Civilization, the Acropolis' Parthenon was converted to a Christian church for almost a millennium, ...

Tell me what is your nightmare and I will tell you who you are!” The quip attributed to Freud may be apocryphal, but I think it contains a grain of truth. I don’t know what your nightmare is, but I ...

In the long and turbulent history of the modern Middle East, one of the region’s more enduring traits has been the willingness of the world’s major powers to betray the aspirations of the Kurdish ...