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

They kidnapped; they killed; they humiliated; they kicked people out of jobs," explained an Alawite writer living in coastal Syria. "One way or another, this was going to happen.""This" is the ...

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

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

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 ...

The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...

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 ...

Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

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