While the Old World magic in many parts of the city has been plowed over by modern affluence, today's Istanbul is every bit as rich and rewarding.

A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled ...

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of ...

Dubrovnik has long been dubbed the “Pearl of the Adriatic,” and at first glance, it’s easy to see why. Enclosed within ...

One of the council's lasting legacies is the Nicene Creed, a profession of faith still recited by Christians of all big ...

Life-sized statues of superheroes like Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange and Thor greet visitors to the new Heroes Museum & Gallery ...

Constantinople, the citadel of Byzantine ... We (we are all Romi) kept them outside the great city walls for months. The westerners were uncouth, largely illiterate, and extremist Christians ...

Constantinople, the magnificent capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Eli Cohen, a Mossad spy caught operating under cover among the highest echelons in Syria, was hanged in Damascus. The information he gathered became instrumental to the IDF’s success in the Golan ...