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

Whatever you think of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, come January, the next four years promise to be critical in ...

Istanbul presses for the strengthening of the ‘Turkic world’, rejecting ‘Eurocentric’ descriptions of the region. But Tajik ...

Islamic’ and ‘State’ — put together evoke alarm rather than optimism. However, the Albanian proposal gives more hope than ...

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 ...

For centuries, hammams were central to Ottoman society, and while they mostly fell out of use with the advent of running ...

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 ...

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

If we asked who the wealthiest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, many would likely think of ...