Amid the constant military campaigns, there was also the “Plague of Justinian,” one of history’s worst pandemics, that ...

More than a century after the guns went silent, The World in Maps is highlighting the human cost of World War I. Marked in ...

One of the last eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, speaking in 1938, proposed a title for his own biography: Scream. He had never, he explained, forgotten the screams of his mother and brother when they ...

Outlook Magazine’s next issue, “Guilty Until Proven Innocent”, looks at the 19 years lost of those who were in jail and those who thought justice was served, until it wasn’t. This article appears as ...

The geopolitical impact of the Arab state on the trajectory of Asian history was enormous: it swept away old states and ...

Cameron Mofid, from California, visited every UN-recognised country and territory in the world by the age of 25 - and two ...

The Ottoman Empire once ruled vast territories across North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Europe, shaping world ...

Though it is almost forgotten today - suppressed, perhaps, by some squeamish historians - the Muslim trade in both black ...

Middle Eastern military supremacy has been the subject of global discussion this summer as Israel and Iran traded blows over ...