Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 4th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

The Vartanantz War, waged in 451 A.D., is one of the heroic pages in the history of the Armenian nation. Under the leadership ...

U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships rescued personnel from an Iranian vessel that sank in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, U.S.

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One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal ...

Syria is fractured by competing armies but who holds power and where may be shifting as the US eyes an exit.

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Legendary CBS News correspondent Bob Simon's family and coworkers are remembering him 10 years after his death. The award-winning newsman, who died suddenly in a Feb. 11, 2015 car accident in New York ...

Raised without faith, Stephen Williams embraced Zen Buddhism before a surprising encounter led him to Catholicism and Opus ...

Shortly before unleashing his million-strong army on European soil, the Persian Emperor Xerxes was confronted with his chief ...

"The armed forces are in the best condition they have ever been and are ready to meet any threats," the Iranian defense ministry quoted him as saying when asked about Iran’s reaction to reports that ...