They wanted to retain their Christian faith at any cost. Catholicos Hovsep of Armenia summoned a meeting of the clergy and nobility of the Armenian people. The response to the Persian Emperor was: ...

Army Brig. Gen. Joseph W. Rank sought federal permission to accept a tempting opportunity: to work as a paid consultant for the defense minister of Qatar, a wealthy Persian Gulf nation trying to ...

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in ...