The lightning assault by Syrian rebels that has seen them seize control of Aleppo, Syria’s second city, is a classic case of ...

Throughout humanity's history, there have been lasting empires that stood for millennia, ruling vast areas of land and people ...

Lebanon ceasefire, the president of the American University of Beirut talked with Inside Higher Ed about guiding the ...

From the gigantic Persian empire, to the expansive British Empire, which dominated most of the world during the middle and ...

Enormous numbers of Iranian missiles were launched against Israel from Iranian soil in April and October of this year, and sporadically by the Houthis. Israel’s missile defense systems, augmented by ...

Hezbollah was founded by the imperialist regime that came to power in Tehran in 1979 as the Lebanese branch of its Islamic ...

The Arab world will expect this mass transfer of Palestinians to be anything but “voluntary”, yet it is doubtful if the Arabs ...

Jim Claven explores Nafpaktos's history and multicultural heritage, a historic gem near the Corinthian Gulf. He visits the ...

ShareThe triumph of Western civilisation after the fall of Rome over the earth was most unlikely event in world history. By the ‘West’, Europe and America are easily indicated and identified as ...

From ‘turkey trot’ to ‘going cold turkey,’ the centerpiece to many Thanksgiving dinners has lent its name to many things. But ...