From its commanding perch nearly 5,000 feet above sea level, the ancient al-Qahira Castle has watched over Yemen’s third-largest city of Taiz for more than 800 years. It has witnessed empires rise and ...

The first new species, Peltospira gargantua, was found on a black smoker chimney in the Hydra field at a depth of about 12,300 feet, researchers said.

This cosmopolitan mecca on the Mediterranean served during its Golden Age, from the 1950s to the 1970s, as a financial center ...

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2025, pp. 36-37 Special Report By John Gee OVER A HUNDRED YEARS ago, the city of Gaza was devastated ...

If you could step inside the pages of an Emily Henry novel, you’d probably find sun-faded linens, sea-glass blues, and a ...

Formula 1 represents the pinnacle of motorsport engineering. But how much do these feats of speed, technology, and ...

Drilling vessels Fatih, Yavuz, and Kanuni, named after notable Ottoman ... in the Black Sea. Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov's government recently signed a contract with Shell for exploration ...

In some areas of the cave, shells have been found from periods ranging from pre-Minoan times to the years of the Ottoman occupation. Chainospilios refers to the cave of the “Chainides” (or Cretan ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was feted as a military “first” and a return to the imperial glories of the 16th century when the ...

At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of ... the Genoese, the Mongols, Ottomans, Russians, Ukrainians, and even by the Germans for a brief period during World War ...

The oil-rich Middle East the Ottomans had controlled now lay in Western hands ... A furious Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Ukraine’s Crimea to protect its Baltic Sea fleet. Russia was ...