The Azerbaijanis are outraged by these social media posts, as the Blue Mosque in Yerevan was built by Azerbaijanis, and ...

Tom Tykwer’s “The Light” will open the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. The German-French production, Das Licht (“The ...

For those of a certain age and generation, mention of the Persian Gulf conjures images of war — or at least the threat of ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between Arab Muslims and the army of the Sassanid Persian dynasty during a period of Muslim expansion.

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Crowds gathered in Syria’s Damascus on Sunday to celebrate the fall of Bashar Assad’s government with chants, prayers and the occasional gunfire after opposition fighters entered the capital ...

Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...

In the Bible, Simon was surnamed “Zealot” to distinguish him from the other Simon, who is nicknamed Peter. He is called a ...

If you're a tourist looking to visit less traveled destinations, consider adding the Eurasian country of Azerbaijan to your ...

Over the years, Maharashtra’s struggling farmers have made headlines for committing suicide in droves. But a small group of ...