Credit: National Library of France On January 4, 1254, a French monk named William of Rubruck had his first audience with the Great Khan Mongke at the khan’s encampment in Mongolia. Rubruck ...

The samurai were a class of skilled professional warriors, experts in deadly force. They were similar to European knights in ...

The legendary conqueror Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khaan) laid the foundations of the Mongol Empire and remains ... to his injuries and was brought to his tent, where he continued to issue orders ...

With "Anākī: The Law and Economics of Samurai Organization," Leeson examines the birth of the Kamakura Bakufu (literally "tent government ... in the Genpei War of 1180 to 1185.

And now President Donald Trump, only two months into his “Peace administration,” has taken over U.S. complicity in the ...

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A dense blanket of smog coils snugly around city-centre apartments and Mongolia's traditional round ger tents in its outer districts most winter mornings. Ger dwellings have sprawled as hundreds ...

Mongolia still expects the Power of Siberia 2 project – a major new gas pipeline connecting Russia and China – to go ahead despite a turbulent geopolitical situation that could lead to a ...

Should Hungary follow through with its withdrawal from the world’s only permanent global court for war crimes and genocide, ...

When I add up the number of nights I’ve slept in tents in my lifetime, it is well over a thousand days. My gear shed has no less than a dozen tents, and each one has its own purpose. Some are ...