Turkmens have been an integral part of Syrian society for centuries and are waiting to play a significant role in rebuilding ...

However, the vital importance of oil to the evolution of human civilisation had to wait until after the Second World War when the capitalist mode of production was clearly seen to be in triumphant ...

While Erdoğan consolidates power at home and prepares to project it abroad, he has set the stage for a clash with Israel.

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Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey’s path offered a compelling model: a Muslim-majority, secular, democratic ...

Elian Gonzalez returned to his Cuban father; Workers shout down Democrats, US union bureaucrats; Jordan annexes West Bank; ...

Sonoma State representatives received thousands of emails criticizing the inclusion of history professor Ussama Makdisi as ...

The current ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, has balanced the growing power of Moscow, but the question of a successor has become pressing.

Once on the civil war's front line, the medieval souk, the major Syrian city's former bustling heart, is now largely ...

As a condition for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, Russia demands lifting of sanctions on Russian Banks, insurance companies, ...

It is reported that Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest minds of the Enlightenment, lost £20,000 or the equivalent of $3 ...