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

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

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.

Vergina, Greece is a small, unassuming town in modern times, but it played a crucial role in the ancient world as Aigai. Then ...

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 ...

Why has Iran never been fully subdued, colonized, or occupied long-term? The answer lies in a potent mix of geography, ...

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

Alexander the Great (born 356 BCE) died on 10 June 323 BCE, probably at the age of 32. Scholars disagree about the causes of his death, and the place in which he was buried.

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

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

In Part 1 of our series on the history of US-Iran relations, we explored the rising tensions in Tehran as Prime Minister ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s visit to Kaduna last week was more than a routine political engagement; it was a masterclass in ...