The Battle of Thymbra was a pivotal moment in the history of the ancient world. It was fought between the Persian Empire and ...

The “prince of the kingdom of Persia” did not terminate his mission even after Persia renamed itself on 21 March 1935 when ...

Long before Cyrus the Great, the Medes rose from the fringes of the Iranian plateau, forged a kingdom from scattered tribes, and helped bring down Assyria. This story traces how their shadowy empire ...

Near the starkly imposing tomb of Cyrus the Great, who founded the Persian Empire in 550 BC, I met an Iranian who summarized ...

Despite years of indoctrination and incitement, the Iranian people have not fully succumbed to the coerced messaging of the ...

By the 18th and 19th centuries, the Persian Empire had weakened due to internal strife and had become a pawn in the hands of ...

Most people refer to the 1979 hijacking of Iran by extremist ayatollahs as the Islamic Revolution. I like to refer to it as ...

The practical arguments against cruising are well-known. Quite aside from the environmental burden of such huge vessels, ...

The Sunni counterpart of the ayatollahs left a trail of blood in New York, Madrid, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Raqqa, Baghdad, ...

The City of Côte St. Luc has a pretty long tradition of commenting on provincial, national and international events, if they are relevant to the local community.

Matein KhalidSomething is dangerously wrong in a world where the price of gold rises 30% and silver surges a surreal 65% in a single month, as we witnessed in January 2026. True, an American carrier ...

William Sanders Scarborough was an African-American ex-slave who authored a Greek textbook. His First Lessons in Greek ...