This is the sixteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

A look behind Albania’s remarkable transformation, with tourists pouring in to enjoy its cheap sun and major architects ...

In 1071, a small nomadic dynasty—named the Seljuks after their founder—fought a battle against Byzantine forces under the ...

The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...

McMaster University Libraries is partnering with the McMaster Museum of Art to host an exhibition that will feature rare books, maps, and antiquities related to . . .

Going further back, the Ottoman Empire also breaks the borders. Suddenly, we have a lot of Mediterranean dishes, similar to Moldova and parts of Romania. In more southern parts of Eastern Europe ...

Have renewed US sanctions failed? Or is it because the window for armed action to denuclearise Iran is virtually over?

Alexander the Great, already pretty remarkable, ends up a larger-than-life character in romance tales across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and ... founding of the Ming Empire through a ...

"Both sides are responsible," said Abu Nour, owner of another shop, drawing a small map on a notebook page ... from the farthest reaches of the Ottoman Empire to Aleppo, a crossroads of Levantine ...

In an interview aired on Sharjah TV, His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler ...

Trump insists he is ‘putting pressure’ on Putin after ‘Vladimir STOP!’ exclamation - US president says strikes that killed at ...

The pan-Germanic imperialism after the German unification in 1871 was primarily directed towards the East under the motto ...