Under the Byzantines, Hagia Sophia became the hub of Orthodox Christianity and the last standing symbol of their empire. But in 1453, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (a.k.a. Mehmed the Conqueror) ...

The BBC's Quentin Sommerville witnesses daily attacks on a rebel-held area ravaged by the country's long-running civil war.

My first experience of being under direct fire happened while I was lying in an alpine meadow near Batusha, Kosovo, on a ...

A win for the nation’s first-ever religious charter school in Oklahoma would represent “the most radical change to religious ...