From the blog of Erfan Fard at The Times of Israel ...

The Safavid Dynasty, a Golden Age in Iran, witnessed a cultural flowering under the charismatic Isma'il and and his son Tahmasp, the first two Shahs of the dynasty. This essay is a short history of ...

By 1722 it was so weak that an army of marauders from Afghanistan was able to take and plunder Isfahan. An able general, who dispensed with the fiction of Safavid rule and himself took the throne as ...

Get the latest military news and culture in your inbox daily. The exercise is just one takeaway from the war in Ukraine that the Army is studying to change its tactics and incorporate technology ...

In short, the Seven Core Army Values listed below are what being a Soldier is all about. Bear true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit and other Soldiers.

US Army soldiers were deployed to a remote island southeast of Alaska last week as part of a “force protection operation” amid an expected increase in Russian and Chinese military exercises in ...

(Spc. Parris Kersey/U.S. Army) FORT JOHNSON, Louisiana — A series of experiments with available technology and new unit configurations being tested in Louisiana will shape the future of brigade ...

AMSTERDAM, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The Dutch army will have its own tank unit for the first time in more than 10 years, local media reported on Tuesday, quoting some extracts from a defence white paper ...

The US Army issued a stark rebuke of former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign over the incident on Monday at Arlington National Cemetery, saying in a statement on Thursday that ...

By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would ...