Opinion: Hope remains that despite recent violence, a renewed friendship among cultures can re-emerge ...

As Europe and the rest of the world looked away, the costs of failing to secure a durable peace in which both Israelis and ...

Although it often ranks number two as a city in Greece, Thessaloniki is number one in the country when it comes to Greek ...

One of the many things mentioned after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was that Al Qaeda had chosen that date as a ...

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 ...

After a lengthy siege, the Ottoman army eventually breached the walls of Constantinople in 1453 and conquered it. With that, the Byzantine Empire was sacked, and the Ottoman Empire took over.

To the victors, the spoils. A hundred years ago, after the conclusion of the First World War, the British Empire and its French ally broke up the old Ottoman-dominated Arab world and created new ...

He picked the most fanatical Islamic sect available, the Wahhabis, uniting it with an easily controllable local tribe under a dim-witted leadership, rebuffed and isolated more capable non-Wahhabis on ...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire, which it replaced when it ...