Russia announced Sunday the capture of another eastern Ukrainian village, in the Donetsk region, as its forces advanced ...

MOSCOW: Russia announced Sunday the capture of another eastern Ukrainian ... who named it after the ancient city of Constantinople.

The Siege of 1453 The Siege of 1453 was a defining moment for Constantinople and the world. The city, once considered ...

It is extremely premature to perceive politicians' talk about peace as a signal for an early cease-fire, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces need to lick wounds and build new lines of defense. The ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

The Balkan Peninsula, a crucial crossroads between Europe and Asia, has a storied history marked by the rise of the Byzantine Empire and the iron grip of the Ottoman Empire. From the conquest of the ...

The cases range from the serious to the downright surreal. One of the allegations is that he kicked the tomb of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, who captured what was then Constantinople from the ...