I was to visit Ukraine this week, but didn’t make the trip. Because the same war I would have seen there had already come to ...

It is twenty-four years since the First Crusaders conquered Jerusalem. Robert of Bures is a young knight whose father rose to ...

BEIRUT The battle for Syria’s second-largest airport intensified Saturday as government troops tried to reverse recent strategic gains the rebels have made in the northeast in their quest to topple ...

Private Ken Ward-Harvey was lucky to survive his first encounter with the enemy at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942.

Areas within the Idlib province are still being developed, Abu Tarek explains, and, unlike under the Assad regime, it’s ...

Around seven ethnic Armenian fighters from the YPJ (Women’s Defense Unit) sit quietly on sofas around me, smiling gently when ...

From the shattered boulevards of Tripoli to the bombed-out alleys of Aleppo, from Baghdad's sectarian heartlands to Gaza's ...

Picture: AFP It has all rapidly become part of the routine of daily life. Still, things have changed. It’s wartime, emergency routine. The streets in the town centre are not entirely deserted but ...

“The liberation battle has been accomplished,” he said. “The country has now entered the reconstruction phase.” Aleppo, once Syria’s largest city and economic hub, became a major battleground in the ...

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago.

The events will bring to life the epic battle that, despite the Patriots’ tactical defeat, galvanized support across the ...