Sent by sultan Mohammed ben Abdellah to the Ottoman Empire, Abdelkrim Ragoun did not return from Constantinople empty-handed.

Empires rise like wildfires—how do we measure their scars? One way to measure the march of human history would be the timeline of “The Empires.” The Akkadian Empire (circa 2334–2154 BCE), is widely ...

Russia and Turkey’s international religious influence relies on a specific national narrative – one that is challenged by the ...

A rare collection of artworks, including Gentile Bellini's renowned portrait of Sultan Mehmed II, is currently on exhibit in ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Almost 60 years later, he hasn’t changed a bit. Appearing at a 45th anniversary screening of “The Empire Strikes Back” on the opening night of the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival, Lucas ...

New Yorkers would be forced to pay 2.5 times the market rate for electricity generated by the Empire Wind One offshore ... then lose $2 billion of their capital funding. They would go back to ...

A sea of flowers blanketed the cold concrete of the brutalist memorial to the Armenian genocide on the Tsitsernakaberd hill, ...

LOS ANGELES -- "I am your father." Those four words from Darth Vader are the most well-known in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" and possibly the entire galaxy! "The Empire Strikes Back" turns ...

Russia attacked Kyiv with an hourslong barrage of missiles and drones overnight, killing at least 12 people and injuring about 90 others in its deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital since ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia pounded Kyiv with an hours-long barrage of missiles and drones Thursday, killing at least 12 people in its deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital since July and ...

The somber day marks the anniversary of the 1915 deportation of several notable Armenian scholars and community leaders from the Ottoman capital of ... by the Ottoman Empire in a campaign of ...