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 ...

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 ...

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 ) ...

Cyrus, known as king of kings or Shahenshah, is remembered particularly by Jewish and Christian scholars for his support for ...

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape ...

Netanyahu also thanked Trump, "a great friend of the state of Israel", for standing by its side in the conflict, saying the ...

Speaking as a former aspiring classics major, I found Hankins’s approach more than a little refreshing and, dare I say, ...

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 ...