Glen Frederic Matheson, whose great-grandfather served as officer in Ottoman army, adopts name Murat after receiving Turkish ...

With Russia primarily focused on Europe, Turkey is poised to fill this void with relative ease, as they have already been ...

They kidnapped; they killed; they humiliated; they kicked people out of jobs,” explained an Alawite writer living in coastal ...

Primrose Dunlop, who has died aged 70, was a Sydney socialite who in 1990 briefly attracted the attention of the world’s ...

You can blame the European colonial powers for the last major redrawing of the borders in the region in 1918-20, after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The new borders paid little heed to the ...

‘This’ is the outbreak of violence in Syria that killed 745 civilians in 30 ‘massacres’ along Syria’s Alawite-majority ...

The mountains can be a place of awe and wonder for anyone hitting the slopes on a ski trip. For 10 wounded veterans from the ...

You can blame the European colonial powers for the last major redrawing of the borders in the region in 1918–20, after the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The new borders paid little heed to the ...

I. B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has announced the publication of Zabel Yesayan’s The Agony of a People: ...

The “Greekness” of the Terracotta Army went viral, but archaeologists in China were skeptical of the influence of Greek art.

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...