For Wärmländer and his colleagues the ring suggests direct contact between Viking society and the Abbaside Caliphate that ruled over most of the Middle East at the time. The ring's owner ...

Can you believe they even travelled through Russia to trade in the Middle East.Amazing ... to be 'going Viking'. But not all the Vikings were bloodthirsty warriors. Some came to fight, but ...

The US Navy is again without an aircraft carrier in the Middle East; it's the second time in the past year that it has lacked ...