Celebrations heralding a communist takeover of Cambodia on April 17, 1975, soon turned ugly as the Khmer Rouge imposed their ...

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Genghis Khan died in 1227 fighting in China. Upon his successor’s death in 1259, squabbles over succession led to the Mongol ...

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A Tale of Two Cities In the grand historical narrative of the Islamic world, two cities have stood out as dominant forces: Baghdad, the intellectual, cultural, and scientific hub of the Islamic Golden ...