They were known as the Knights Hospitaller, and the siege to come would pit Grand Master Jean de Valette and his force of outnumbered defenders against an elite Ottoman army. For this, we're ...

The Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire during World War I, not only led to the physical annihilation of ...

Malta was of minimal strategic importance, and defeat did not temper the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent's ambitions. To convey this without detracting from the drama of the siege is a ...

In ‘Our Story’, a fascinating Turkish drama starring Burak Deniz and Hazal Kaya, we follow Filiz as she takes care of her ...

On the eve of the 1987 hajj pilgrimage, around 400 people were killed in the clashes between mostly Iranian Shia pilgrims, ...

Much has been written about the Great Siege of 1565. The victory of the Knights of St John over the Ottomans is one of the most celebrated events in sixteenth-century Europe. Voltaire wrote that ...

In his new book 'The Islamic Moses,' US-based author Mustafa Akyol turns to the Quran's focus on a shared prophet to ...

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...

When Joe Biden was President, and support for Ukraine was very strong in the U.S., Mearsheimer seemed like the odd man out.

For many of us, virtual reality experiences are few and far between. And the ones we encounter typically involve gaming. But ...