The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of a top English soccer team. Behind the scenes, he has been described as the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

Iran's nuclear obsession can be explained through three key facts: deterrence failure, religious incentives for apocalyptic conflict and threats to Western civilization beyond Israel.

After Iran’s parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, Beijing’s foreign-affairs spokesperson stressed—in what looked ...

Yves-Marie Stranger still remembers the stunned look on the faces of his guests. They had ridden horses in Mongolia, trekked ...

Gulbadan Begum was the daughter of the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is the only Mughal woman known to have ...

At Opis, Alexander the Great confronted a mutiny of his army, caused by simmering tensions between the Macedonians and ...

Making of an empire. As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

No crystal ball here. Just some wishful thinking from a person who tries to see the glass half-full rather than half-empty.

Where time stands still and legends breathe through ancient stones, Hampi is a destination offers more than just ruins. From riverside cafes to echoes of empires, it is a place where past and present ...

The biggest questions are: what options does Iran have to take down the US? How much damage can Iran cause to America at the ...

EMERGING from a carpet shop in Iran’s beautiful and ancient city of Esfahan, I was engulfed by a group of jostling young men.