What led to the decline of Byzantium? How did the Turks manage to capture Constantinople? These events were a severe blow to the aspirations of the crusaders -who neither recovered the Holy Land, nor ...

Rebels are asserting control in Damascus as questions loom over their plans. By The New York Times The rebels who ended the Assad family’s brutal rule in Syria began asserting control on Monday ...

Just after 6 a.m. Tuesday, an explosion shattered the morning quiet on a residential street in Russia’s capital. A bomb hidden in a scooter detonated, killing a senior military officer. Photos ...

As a war criminal he was a legitimate target and had been named in a trial in absentia, the SBU said. Russia’s security service released a statement saying it had detained a 29-year-old man from ...

If you had walked the front lines in the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, you might have heard shouts in Ukrainian and Russian, perhaps mingled with voices speaking regional languages such as Buryat ...

The return of macroeconomic stability allowed the government and firms to war-proof their operations ... country’s average power deficit to 6% of total demand in 2025 and 3% in 2026, says ...

Set in 450 A.D., the film follows the story of Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns as he sets out with his army to conquer the Roman Empire.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An Israeli strike killed at least 10 people, including a family of four, in Gaza City overnight, Palestinian ...

The Pala d’Oro, an ornate Byzantine altar screen, displays the crusaders’ wealth with an astonishing collection of a total of 1,300 pearls, 300 emeralds, 300 sapphires, 400 garnets and 100 amethysts.

Trump Says Zelenskiy Should Prepare to Make Deal to End War Trump downplays value of territory seized by Russian invasion President-elect hasn’t invited Zelenskiy to his inauguration ...

In its update on Sunday, maps and analysis by think tank the Institute for the Study of War marked Russia's incremental gains in the Donetsk region, that have gathered pace in recent weeks and ...