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Katie: In World War II, the British Empire faced major threats in Asia, particularly from Japan ... Have a look at a map to see where it is. You can see that it is a shortcut because it allows ...

The formidable fortifications watched centuries go by. The remains are reminders and relics of the city’s many pasts.

Ashok Ogra In the serene beauty of its snow-capped mountains and lush valleys, Kashmir has long been a land of paradoxes ...

Persecution is not alien to Christians and Christianity. From the first century itself Christians were persecuted severely from the hands of the Jews and the Romans. Christians were treated as animals ...

Amrith is the author of The Burning Earth: A History, which examines the past 500 years of human history, colonization and empire ... in Asia and Africa, where in a sense facing an endgame, what you ...

Marco Polo (1254--1324) is likely the most famous merchant who ever lived. Even small children know his name, thanks to the ...

This wasn’t all de Gaulle was right about, it seems. His wariness of the US — he took France out of Nato’s command structure — has aged better than British and German reliance on that superpower. Of ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

Speeches delivered by J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale ...

From ancient conquerors to modern revolutionaries, Iran has produced figures who've shaped history. Join us as we explore the ...