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) ...

In 944, Sayf al-Dawla established himself as the head of the independent Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo. Sayf’s rule over his ...

Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

VICENZA, Italy – She started working for the Army as a file room clerk on the night shift as a temporary hire at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, in 2001. Nearly 24 years later, the workforce ...

(Pfc. Luciano Alcala/US Army) Instead of traipsing blindly through the byzantine labyrinth that is the regular defense acquisition process to modernize its nearly 40-year-old M1 Abrams tank ...

Credit: Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons After the tremendously successful reign of Basil II, the eleventh century signaled a turn of fortunes in a far more negative direction for the Byzantine ...

Watch as we detail the Byzantine Empire’s military and diplomatic efforts to push back, and explore how Slavic societies - the Sclavenii - laid the groundwork for the future medieval kingdoms of ...

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has replaced FBI Director Kash Patel as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, an unprecedented move for the civilian head of the ...

WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army has turned over to the Senate a 2024 August memo detailing why it routinely failed to use a safety system known as ADS-B on helicopter flights around ...

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has replaced FBI Director Kash Patel as acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, four sources familiar with the move told CBS News.

The Army will recode 20,000 parachutist jobs in a major airborne restructuring. Here, an Army paratrooper assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade recovers his parachute in Pordenone, Italy ...

Driscoll will continue to serve as Army Secretary while he also oversees the ATF. Patel was sworn in as ATF's acting director in late February, just a few days after he was also sworn in as FBI ...