The Western intelligentsia’s faith in diplomacy with Iran is not a new position. Its record is unbroken and catastrophic ...

The United States once protected ships from Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz in the 1980s. That came during Iran's ...

Creatives converge from all over the globe, new designs are showcased, and trends are set for the forthcoming year. The ...

Istanbul plants millions of tulips every spring, a reminder of the flower's origins far from the Netherlands.

Anzac stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, so the day is called Anzac Day in recognition of the soldiers who ...

Long before domes, synagogues, and ruin bars, there were springs. Budapest sits on more than 120 natural thermal sources.

A group of people native to Anatolia, the Karamanlides, are believed by many to be Turkish speaking Greeks. They used a ...

Gallipoli was a hastily launched military campaign over a maritime choke point – and has parallels with the Strait of Hormuz.

By Garo Gumusyan (Notes from the book Istanbul Islands, published in 1962 – quite old, but when it comes to history, does it ...

Syrian Kurds ran their own autonomous region for 12 years after breaking away from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

One reason the U.S. Navy was created in the late 1700s and early 1800s was to counter north African states’ attacks on shipping, during conflicts that became known as the Barbary wars. That situation ...

This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...