Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) is set to spud a play-opening wildcat well offshore Somalia this quarter using one of its recently acquired drillships. In October, the ambitious state oil company completed a ...

Prussia was undoubtedly one of the most important actors in Europe’s Early- and Late Modern periods. It has a fascinating history and geographically and politically, up until the early 18th century, ...

Take a flight of discovery high above Bath, England, where the iconic Royal Crescent, the historic Roman Baths, and the picturesque Pulteney Bridge converge—captured in stunning aerial footage that ...

AL-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

The White House rolled out a new website Tuesday with a full-blown recast of the historical record of January 6, 2021, hailing the pro-Trump mob who stormed the US Capitol five years ago as “peaceful ...

For those of us who read and value newspapers, these are seemingly perilous times. Large metropolitan dailies in cities such as Denver and New York have ceased operations (just this week came news ...

A battle over Iowa City's State Historical Society is now unfolding in the Iowa Legislature. A pair of dueling bills, filed one month apart, aim to change Iowa law 8A.707, which requires the State ...

Born just after the Civil War, poet William Henry Davies spent much of his life tramping around in the United States and Britain. Writing about his observations of life and the human condition made ...

With his immersive latest, the Filipino director deconstructs the record of Portuguese explorer and colonizer Ferdinand Magellan. Despite our best efforts to go into a film completely blind, sometimes ...

Hours after the U.S. military captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, President Trump made it clear that the U.S. operation is about — at least in part — control of Venezuela's oil. "We're going ...