The Ottoman minaret, which is the standard minaret type in Türkiye and across the Balkans as well as being found in the ...

After Israel and the de facto government of the Gaza Strip, Hamas, agreed to a ceasefire beginning Jan. 19, Gaza’s olive ...

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 ...

Robert Kaplan views today’s world of renewed great-power rivalry as ‘an interconnected system of states in which no one ...

During WWII, Albania defied the Nazis, sheltering Jews and preserving its tradition of hospitality. Discover how this ...

The Ottomans are one of the most interesting, yet misunderstood, dynasties in history. How did the Empire come about? Did ...

When European diseases wiped out up to 90% of the Americas' population, abandoned farmland was swallowed by forests—pulling enough carbon from the air to help plunge the planet into a centuries-long ...

Kaplan’s expropriating the title of his most famous poem for “Waste Land: A World in Permanent ... Drawing an analogy with the late Ottoman Empire, Mr. Kaplan thinks contemporary Russia ...

Historical records, from Ottoman-era documents to British Mandate maps and Israeli Supreme Court findings, tell a different ...