ISTANBUL (AP) — Delegations from Russia and Ukraine met Monday in Turkey for their second round of direct peace talks in just ...

Expectations were low for any breakthrough on ending the 3-year-old war after a string of stunning attacks over the weekend.

The Ottoman Empire expanded across three continents, conquering major territories in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Europe. So why didn’t they ever conquer Italy? In this video, we ...

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 ...

The fall of Constantinople, on May 29,1453 was the final phase of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars and the darkest page in Greek ...

“Pakistan was created on the basis of religion, and Turkey’s history is linked to the Ottoman Empire, the last Islamic caliphate. Additionally, Pakistan is also important from a geographical ...

Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago. Yet this seeming tolerance of non-Muslim faiths was in fact ...

Syria is no longer Syria but rather an integral part of the emerging Ottoman Empire. A similar case was seen with Iraq, which, since the American withdrawal and until very recently, was ...

The implications of Turkey’s ascendancy extend beyond Syria. By asserting itself as the successor to the Ottoman Empire, Turkey is reshaping the regional order established after World War I.

The Ottoman Empire was founded in 1299. It achieved its greatest military victory in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople. This ended the thousand-year history of the Eastern Roman Empire and ...

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum of Art, is a luxurious introduction to the complex, symbiotic relationship between two rival maritime empires. It’s an import ...