American foreign policy in West Asia is a textbook example of adolescent overreach: short attention spans, cyclical memory, a belief in shortcuts to regime change, and an almost allergic reaction to ...

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

After Alexander the Great’s death, ... who had crossed the Indus River—the farthest frontier of the old Persian empire— with his armies sometime around 325 B.C.

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

Tel Aviv and Washington will lose this battle with Tehran, and that failure will have a catalytic impact on peoples across ...

From Cyrus to Alexander : a history of the Persian Empire by Briant, Pierre. Publication date 2002 Topics Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C, Iran -- History -- To 640 Publisher Winona Lake, IN : ...

Picture Alexander the Great alive today. How would his colossal wealth stack up against the likes of modern-day moguls?

“Let not the one who girds on his armor boast like the one who takes it off” ( 1 Kings 20:11 ) ...

Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the ...

In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the ...

The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world is brought to life with animated maps, images from Osprey Publishing and Total War game footage. In Part 1, we look ...