The major cities of Central Europe built along the Danube were the focus of key battles in the war between Muslims and ...

Refugees tend to work hard, are loyal to their employers and often are more willing to relocate than other hires because they ...

Suleiman I, the most dazzling of the Ottoman sultans, illuminated the 16th century, reigning from 1520 to 1566. He was the ...

The Green Line is a meandering boundary that stretches across approximately 500 kilometers, and it lies at the heart of many ...

It is not the first time large powers have colluded to negotiate new borders or spheres of influence without the input of the ...

Without putting too fine a point on it, then, Donald Trump seems to believe that controversial policy proposals are really offers of solutions that ideally will trigger a deliberative process which wi ...

Ukraine has not been invited to a key meeting between American and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia this week to decide what ...

Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected ...

Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

Identity in the Middle East is still shaped by social and economic relationships rather than by modern political boundaries.