Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has claimed allegiance to the Knights Templar, which he described as a secret society created to carry out a crusade against Islam in Europe. Several ...

After Christian Europeans successfully seized Jerusalem from Islamic infidels during the Crusades of the Middle Ages, various ...

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In Episode 7 of Knightfall Season 2, a trial began regarding the Knights Templar and the charges laid against them by King Philip IV of France (Ed Stoppard). This trial occurred on Friday the 13th, ...

Mark Hamill laid down his lightsaber last year and is now picking up a sword, as he joins Season 2 of History’s drama series “Knightfall.” And the first look image of Hamill in character reveals that ...

The Knights Templar were warrior monks bound by strict vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, yet they became one of the ...

When vigilante militiamen stormed this farming town in western Mexico this month, a killer for the Knights Templar drug cartel pushed out of a house with a bazooka. But with training from ex-soldiers, ...

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In contemporary literature, the Order of the Knights Templar was the focus of novels by Dan Brown (“The DaVinci Code”), Umberto Ecco (“Foucault’s Pendulum”), Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth), ...

Grant Thackray alights with an incendiary Sunday puzzle. By Caitlin Lovinger A navy officer put in charge of Mexico’s second-largest port in an effort to wrest control of it from a drug gang was shot ...