A Palestinian family has presented an Ottoman soldier's keepsake to Turkey's mission in Jerusalem after handling it with exceptional care for over a century. During World War I, an Ottoman soldier ...

Researchers excavated the first complete skeleton of a camel in central Europe — one that may have started out life in the army and ended it as a ...

What did 16th century Romanians do with enemy Ottomans in their midst? Human bones from a mass grave reveal their shockingly violent deaths.

This recipe is from the 19th century, though Ottoman soldiers had been making warrior’s halva since at least the 15th century, and likely for quite a while before that. They would make and eat ...

Why the Ottoman Empire rose and fell One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I.

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish soldiers launched an overnight raid into neighboring Syria, evacuating dozens of besieged troops guarding an Ottoman tomb and moving the crypt Sunday back to Turkey after ...

EDIRNE, Turkey -- On a grass field slick with olive oil and steeped in tradition, hundreds of boys as young as 11 joined the ...

The massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman forces during World War I – and the question of whether it should be called a genocide – remains highly contentious a century ...

Turkish troops entered Syria in a bold overnight rescue operation, whisking back to Turkish soil some 40 soldiers trapped by Islamic State militants for eight months at a historic Ottoman tomb.

Pope Francis is set to canonize an estimated 800 Italians, who were forced to choose between Islam or death during a 15-century siege by Ottoman soldiers.

An ardent Ottoman traveller from the 17th century, Evliya Celebi, left a valuable account on the Hajj pilgrimage route and way stations between Damascus and Mecca.

News Local News Ayr Ayr soldier's treasured keepsakes uncovered almost 100 years after he was shot by Ottoman hordes in First World War battle William Leslie died on plains outside Gaza in ...