Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

The Persian Gulf is emerging as the new hub of globalization, and may be willing to offer African countries deals without Western moralizing or Chinese debt traps.

Countries long associated with emigration, such as Mexico and the Philippines, are now rich enough to have passed their ...

I f the black basalt landscape does not immediately point to Suwayda’s idiosyncrasy, the fluttering Venezuelan flags do. The ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

The move could shutter the country’s largest opposition party, the Islamic Action Front, which is the Brotherhood’s political ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An overnight Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City killed 23 people, as Arab ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called Hamas “sons of dogs,” demanding the release of the remaining Israeli ...

The Mughal Empire, with its grand palaces, opulent courts, and immense wealth, is often regarded as one of the richest ...

US citizens can obtain another country’s citizenship through a variety of means, such as investment; naturalization; or ...

The Memory of the World Register, established by UNESCO in 1992, recognizes documentary heritage of exceptional value.

However, the vital importance of oil to the evolution of human civilisation had to wait until after the Second World War when ...