Iran Launches Restoration of Hafez Mausoleum, Honoring Legacy of Iconic Poet
TEHRAN—Head of Fars Cultural Heritage Department Mohsen Ziaei gave news of beginning of organizing and restoring Hafez mausoleum, a historical and cultural site where the 14th-century Persian poet is laid to rest....
Remembering Okinawa: 80 Years Since WWII’s Forgotten Tragedy, Locals Keep History Alive
TOKYO - Okinawa on Monday vowed to preserve and pass on the lessons of history in a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the end of a fierce World War II ground...
Ibn Battuta, The Legendary Moroccan Explorer Who Traveled the World
Moroccon muslim explorer and writer, Also known as: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Lawātī al-Tanjī ibn Baṭṭūṭah
Ibn Battuta was a Pioneering Explorer of the...
250 years after America went to war for independence, a divided nation battles over...
LEXINGTON — Thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago, with the blast of...
Tokyo marks 80th anniversary of U.S. air raids in WWII
TOKYO - Tokyo on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of a night of U.S. air raids during World War II that killed around 100,000 people amid concern over fading memories of the...
Trump declassifies JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King Jr assassination files
The National Archives has released tens of thousands of records in recent years related to the November 22, 1963 assassination of president Kennedy
WASHINGTON: US...
Heroic and pride history of Azerbaijan
Islamabad - Today in Azerbaijan nation are commemorating 35 years of the military assault against the people of Azerbaijan and an unprecedented massacre targeting civilians by the former Soviet regime in breach...
WWII veteran recounts escape from sinking Japanese navy carrier
On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after escaping the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Zuikaku before it sank.
Atomic bombings of Japan deemed needless by U.S. historian
While many in the United States believe the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hastened the end of World War II, a renowned U.S. historian argues that these attacks were needless because...
New book shines light on life — and death — of Abdullah bin Saud...
UK historian’s ‘The Imam, the Pasha and the Englishman’ reveals details of meeting between Al-Saud and the Ottoman governor of Egypt
In April 1818, Ottoman...