Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together throughout Europe in the 15th to 18th centuries. The stratioti must have ...

Paramilitary forces in the Middle East are some of the largest in the world. They work in a region where traditional military operations are often tied in with internal security or even tribal ...

Depending on the criteria of what classifies a landmass as an island, between a few thousand and one million islands are ...

preserving the nation's rich cultural heritage and creating unique handmade products that reflect Yemen's history. Former Bollywood Star Mamta Kulkarni To Lead Kinnar Akhara As Mahamandleshwar At ...

Cuba’s communist regime has a history of exploiting its medical personnel by forcing them to work in difficult conditions and ...

A warning has gone out to seafarers in the Persian Gulf over what appear to be attempts by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to compel ships to enter Iranian waters. While Iran has a history of harassing ...

For many, these hostages were not the “right kind,” not the kind that could be defended or spoken for without risking the ire ...

The Israel-Palestine-Hamas conflict remains one of the most complex and enduring disputes in modern history. It is deeply ...

What struck me as I saw “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” which is set in modern Tehran, is how 15 years after the Green Movement ...

Archivists preserve social media posts from conflict zones — but verifying and protecting the vast quantity of dynamic ...

This little-understood Middle Eastern culture ruled much of modern-day Jordan from the third ... routes that passed through the city. From Yemen came incense, aromatic plants such as myrrh ...