Tamerlane (1336-1405) was a celebrated Turko-Mongol conqueror whose victories, characterized by acts of inhuman cruelty, made him the master of the greater part of western Asia. His vast empire disintegrated at his death. Tamerlane or Timur (Tamerlane...

(1336–1405), emperor of the Mongol empire. Born in what is now Uzbekistan, Timur, known as Temur-i-Lenk ("Timur the Lame," or in English, Tamerlane) because his right arm and leg were paralyzed from arrow wounds, was the last of...

Timur (Chagatai language: تیمور - Tēmōr, "iron") (1336 – 19 February 1405), among his other names[1], commonly called Tamerlane[2], was a 14th century Turco-Mongol[3] conqueror of much of western and Central Asia, and founder of the Timurid...

March 24th, 1401 THE CENTRAL CHARACTER of Christopher Marlowe's bloodthirsty and hugely popular drama Tamburlaine the Great, in which the fall of Damascus is a major episode, was the savage Turkic warlord the Persians called Timur Lenk (Timur the Lame), which in...

ere the teachers of the West a bit less Eurocentric, his fame would be immortal. Yet we hardly know his name. His enemies despised him as an illiterate barbarian, as Tamerlane (Timur-i-lang, "Timur the Lame"), a crude and lowborn cripple. Yet he met them...

Russian law enforcement agencies have tortured three former Guantanamo inmates and subjected them and four others to continual harassment and abuse, a U.S.-based rights group said in a report Thursday.Human Rights Watch urged the United States to do more to protect the rights of terrorism...

A man formerly held in the U.S. facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was killed Wednesday in a shootout with security agents in a restive North Caucasus republic, Russia's top security agency said.Ruslan Odizhev was killed amid gunfire that erupted when agents tried to arrest him...