World War I ended with the Ottoman Empire vanquished and facing imminent collapse, its doomed alliance with Imperial Germany costing hundreds of thousands of Ottoman lives and dealing a death blow to ...
What sparked the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I? In this episode, Kings and Generals dives into ...
World War I transformed the Middle East in ways it had not seen for centuries. The Europeans, who had colonized much of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, completed the takeover with the ...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is meeting his French opposite number, Francois Hollande, Thursday evening, as France seems keener than ever to bring Russia in from the cold to join its anti-Islamic ...
"The conference 'Jihad and other uses of Islam in World War I ... ' took place in Leiden on 13-14 November, 2014. This volume is based on the papers delivered at that conference." Preface -- ...
Not all of the fighting during World War One happened in the trenches of the Western Front. Some major battles were fought for control of the Middle East. It was here that the British Army, supported ...