Long before he became Dracula, he was Vlad, Son of the Dragon. Born into a kingdom caught between the Ottoman Empire and Hungary, Vlad grew up in a world of shifting loyalties, religious wars, and ...

Tosti-Croce arrived in Valparaíso, Chile, in 1950 from Genoa by way of Buenos Aires at the age of two and a half, along with ...

The first major wave of Arab and Muslim immigration to the United States occurred between 1870 and 1924. Most migrants were from Lebanon, with a smaller number from Syria, both then part of the ...

From gilded palace gates and formidable city entrances to pretty portals into sacred places, we take a look at the most ...

The Old City of Jerusalem is of great importance for the three monotheistic religions. It contains many sacred sites: the ...

Each visit becomes a journey through time, where past and present exist side by side, and where stories of faith, love, war, ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she intends to move ahead with a vote on a resolution that labels the deaths of more than a million Armenians during World War I as genocide. The resolution ...

In the riverside town of Vidin in Bulgaria, I was briefly king of the castle. I had the medieval citadel to myself. Looming over the Danube, the fortress was known for centuries as the guardhouse to ...

Ottoman mosques still dot Eastern Europe ... allying with Hitler's Germany in World War II. With the war all but lost, he met ...

The actor, singer, and dancer almost retired in the 1960s--but not before allegedly being offered the role of James Bond.

Armenia will continue its reforms according to its needs, including purchases of weapons and military equipment. But [the Armenian-Azerbaijani agreements in Washington on] August 8 is an important ...