Afghanistan has been like a soccer ball kicked around by competing empires since Alexander the Great conquered Persia in 300 ...

Iran has cited a 19th-century British map as part of its dispute with the United Arab Emirates over a number of Gulf islands.

The fort at Bidar is a historic place. It is part of the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage sites under the wider ...

The scale of the event was staggering, with 18 tons of food, 180 waiters, and 25,000 bottles of wine to serve the elite ...

Tavernier came from a Protestant family of engravers and geographers based in Paris. Drawn to the East, he is best known for ...

Simply put, everything is not what it seems when it comes to the inspiration behind some of history's most recognizable ...

Kulchas are synonymous with Amritsar because the moment we ask for them we automatically attach the word to the city. One of ...

With Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 85, reportedly severely ill, Mojtaba Khamenei seems poised to fill his father's shoes.

They bear witness to the master painters and calligraphers whose work flourished thanks to the deep pockets of elites; they ...

New Delhi: The Canadian government has accused India’s Home Minister Amit Shah of being behind the authorisation of surveillance and violence against Sikh separatists in Canada. It has also asked ...

Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, is shot dead outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb with a large Sikh population. He was a Canadian citizen campaigning for the creation of an independent ...