The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.

This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

The United Nations General Assembly, the United States and many other countries condemned the annexation, and the U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia over its moves. Few countries ...

The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will hold a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday, Seoul's foreign ministry said ...

The Villanovan culture, the earliest phase of the Etruscan civilization, was the first Iron Age society in Italy.

Two British diplomats expelled in a spying row. A blistering statement from Russia’s foreign intelligence service calling ...

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

Only 15 federal judges in U.S. history have been impeached by Congress, but just a handful of them were actually removed from ...

(photo credit: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum/Wikimedia Commons) After noting in 1853 that there was no ... Louis after the 1848 revolutions in Europe, and briefly fought with ...

The relationship between "the Arab Levant" and "the world," in modern times, has not been a friendly one. “The world," here, refers the West and its states- that is, the Atlantic World, while "the ...