Although he had close calls, Connecticut World War II veteran Edward J. Apicella Sr. said he survived the hellish battle of Okinawa physically unscathed. But the Waterbury native, his voice breaking ...

Thousands filled Peace Memorial Park on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa.

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

On Lin’s pedestal are the words “pioneer in the war against drugs” in both English and Chinese. That makes him more relevant than Confucius in the America of Donald Trump . In 1839, Lin was the Qing ...

China has weaponized fentanyl against the United States. It’s fighting a long battle, motivated by a desire to destabilize the US and challenge its economic and military hegemony, and by an ancient ...

While synthetic opioids like fentanyl are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, beginning with the First Opium War of 1839-42. The Opium Wars ...

The battle, now remembered as the 1967 opium war, was fought between the armies of a Burmese warlord and a Lao general, and a renegade division of Chinese Nationalist, ...

A scene from 1842 during the first Opium War between China and Britain. Such battles more than 150 years ago were about control over trade, finance, and sovereignty — much like China’s ...