Middle East experts have warned that altering national borders in the region could ignite chaos and deepen instability, following controversial comments by a US official aligned with President Donald ...

The Ottoman Siege of Malta. Clashing civilizations, rival great powers, cutting-edge technology: we have been here before, as Marcus Bull, a professor at the University of North C ...

The fall of an empire—the end of a polity, a socioeconomic order, a dominant culture, or the intertwined whole—looks more like a cascading series of minor, individually unimportant failures ...

On the night of June 13, at 03:10, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that Israel had launched a preemptive ...

Sinai belonged to the Ottoman Empire until 1906, when Britain seized both it and Egypt. Sinai’s prestige stems from its unique geography.

The Gough Map. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after ...

This episode begins season two of the animated documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire. After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans began reshaping the city into their ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fall has seemingly turbocharged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman dreams.

The colors of yellow, gold, orange and red are awaiting us this autumn. Where will they appear first? This 2024 fall foliage map shows where.