It was on the Persian New Year of 21 March 1935 that Reza Shah announced that he was formally changing his country’s name from ‘Persia’ to ‘Iran’…

On 8 March 1963, the Ba’ath Party came to power in Syria through a military coup staged against President Nazim al-Qudsi and his prime minister…

“Eureka!” This was the one-word cable that US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger sent to the Nixon White House after secretly visiting…

110 years ago, a coup d’etat rocked the imperial capital of Istanbul.It was the second in just five years — the first having been staged during the…

Today’s world needs many things. One of them may well be another Yalta conference. The resort city on the south coast of the Crimea is famous for…

Beirut/Damascus: In 1785, an unknown Shiite prelate from Jabal Amal in today’s southern Lebanon, travelled to the city of Baghdad.Salah Ibn Ibrahim…

In March 1976, the Lebanese people sat glued to their black-and-white television sets, watching a dramatic scene that although frequent in most Arab…

During the 17th and 18th century, European philosophers and political scientists used the ancient Latin term casus belli to define a case for waging…