History

The story of Iraqi pilot Munir Rufa, who flew a MiG-21 to Israel in 1966, and of the Mossad operation to seize the Sovie...

The story of Eli Cohen, the Israeli spy who penetrated Syria's highest circles and came close to the presidency, before...

Ali Hassan Salameh was a real Palestinian resistance man whose photo was passed off online as Agent 1001 — and whom the...

A Jordanian woman converted to Judaism, married an Israeli pilot, and after his death became a Mossad assassin — then he...

From Anatolia's warring tribes to Alexander the Great and the Byzantine collapse — the roots of the Ottoman state before...

A Ford truck carrying newspapers vanished into Suez in October 1973, and the driver was never found — every witness gave...

The Ottomans' ancestry is shrouded in mystery: their historians reworked Ertuğrul's lineage, invented names for his moth...

Mossad's Gamal Hassanin was so inept that he was arrested before sending a single message — Egyptian intelligence spotte...

Five places in the old world escaped the Mongol tide — and Ertuğrul's Anatolia was not one of them: he handed the Mongol...

They told us Ertuğrul the Ghazi fought off the Tatars with 500 soldiers and crushed the Crusaders. The dates and the map...

Under cover of darkness after the October crossing, an Egyptian helicopter went in search of an Israeli soldier's body —...

Ertuğrul was not even a name: the father of Osman I has no known identity, and the historians themselves admit his histo...