Republican ideals have evolved over millennia, shaping governance across the globe. Modern republics continue to adapt, but ...

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The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah was a crucial victory for Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun Caliphate over the Sasanian Empire.

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

For nearly 50 years, Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean has been a critical part of the American global ...

Through a blend of ideological ambition and a vast network of proxies, Iran’s influence is felt in places as varied as Beirut ...

It may seem like an odd pairing, but the friendship between the Iranian and Jewish communities isn’t new. Dating back to the ...

Another was the adoption of Persian as the language of Mughal government, overcoming the countless variations of vernacular ...

We know about the Persian Empire and then Alexander’s conquest, the Roman Empire which gave way to the Byzantine, and then the Ottoman. But the Hittites had been there long before, and it was ...

Naval power in the Middle East is incredibly important for protecting not only the maritime borders of individual countries, ...

The early leaders of Zionist thought and action understood this, the colonial nature of Zionism. They had known that if it ...