Centuries before European nations exerted imperial rule across the globe, the Moors—people from powerful North African civilizations—held a stronghold over much of Europe, introducing ...

Walton is one of the world’s leading scholars of intelligence and national security. An historian at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, he received a doctorate in history from Trinity ...

President Vladimir Putin has tightened his grip on the country he has ruled since the turn of the century, winning Russia’s stage-managed election by an overwhelming majority in a result that ...

Instead, the concept of Moors has been used to describe alternatively ... creating inroads for Christians who resented Moorish rule. For centuries, Christian groups challenged Muslim territorial ...

President Vladimir Putin‘s rule over Russia, set to be extended in an effectively uncontested election over the next few days, has never been more total — from the Arctic penal colony where ...

CIA Director William Burns said that a recent uprising by a mercenary group in Russia exposed "signs of weakness" in President Vladimir Putin's regime and contributed to growing discontent among ...

Nick Schifrin discussed what Putin's continued rule means for Russia, Ukraine, the United States and the world with Fiona Hill and Evgenia Kara-Murza. We begin tonight with two major stories ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with University of Oxford professor Ben Ansell about the significance of elections in authoritarian-ruled countries ... I discussed Russia and other seemingly ...