Mohammad Zayadeen was tending his sheep in the rugged Wadi Hidan region of central Jordan nine years ago when he came across a group of hikers. It was an encounter that transformed him from a shepherd ...

Soldiers tend to be much more down on war than those who send them into it, writes Juliet Jacques, as even the briefest look ...

A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

The Ministry of Culture initiates the restoration of the Ottoman Baths in Nafplio, a key 18th-century monument, under a ...

At the turn from the Middle Ages to Modern History, the Army of the Ottoman Empire was the most dominant military force in ...

Many European leaders have marked the end 106 years ago of World War I with warnings that liberty should be cherished and defended as armed conflict has returned to the continent ...

“Friends,” one of the most-watched sitcoms of all time, debuted Sept. 22, 1994. Although no one knew it at the time, it would ...

The annual Frankfurt Book Fair represents a cultural highpoint in Germany, as authors, publishers, booksellers, literary ...

Some of the most important Chinese Inventions include the compass, gunpowder, paper, printing and moveable type, and much ...

University of Miami Religious Studies Professor Henry A. Green highlights the story of Jews who fled their homelands in the ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not ...

Speaking on the 1915 mass killings, Gabbard remarked, “The Ottoman Empire was attempting to cleanse itself of the Armenian ...