For what may be the oldest known coffee brewing method, you'll have to go all the way back to the 16th-century Ottoman Empire ...

A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

President-elect Donald Trump has been filling out his administration in the week since his landslide election. On Tuesday, he ...

Former communist dictator Enver Hoxha left Albania covered by thousands of bunkers. Now the once-isolated country is giving ...

“We will send elite squads of ICE, Border Patrol and federal law ... of Central Powers that included the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria in 1918 and the act ...

One Arab writer takes issue with a noted scholar who assigns the lion's share of the blame to the establishment of the Jewish State. Israel has excelled, not only, because of its military strength and ...

The European countryside really comes alive with color in the fall, and a train trip is the best way to see it. These are the ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not ...

Who remembers this phrase nowadays, “Armenia without Armenians,” or “Hayasdan arantz hayeroo”? That was Ottoman policy — ...

Istanbul presses for the strengthening of the ‘Turkic world’, rejecting ‘Eurocentric’ descriptions of the region. But Tajik ...

With armed conflict again on their continent, many European leaders marked the end 106 years ago of World War I with warnings ...