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 ...
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 ...
Under the president’s watch, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to describe any foreign policy portfolio that has furthered the country’s national interest.
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 ...
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 ...
one of the most important routes of the Roman Empire, facilitated the transport and commercialization of agricultural products to Rome and other cities of the empire. The villa discovered in Cancello ...
Ottoman Empire by Train (Channel 4) sounds terribly romantic, doesn’t it? I was so taken by the title that I began googling Orient-Express journeys to Istanbul, but it turns out that five days ...
The remarkably clear image on a 4×6-inch glass plate negative would join 7,000 other photo plates to make a zigzag summit-to-summit map of the international border shared by Alaska and British ...
DUBAI, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Ten Iranian border guards were killed in an attack in restive southeastern Iran on Saturday, state media quoted the interior ministry as saying, in the latest clash with ...
NEW DELHI/BEIJING Oct 25 (Reuters) - India and China have begun implementing an agreement to end a military standoff on their disputed Himalayan border, the two sides said on Friday, in the ...
China and India are pulling back troops from the two remaining friction points along the disputed Himalayan border, days after the leaders of the two countries met. Troops deployed toe-to-toe are ...
The U.S.-Mexico border as described on the campaign trail or seen on the news can easily create a picture of all border towns as lawless and chaotic. But the reality is more nuanced, as a CBS News ...