In the winter of 1941, Nazi Germany launched a massive offensive to capture Moscow, the heart of the Soviet Union. What ...

How political ideology and violence can lay waste to scientific achievement, and the resilience and resolve of scientists committed to their mission despite persecution, war and starvation, is the ...

1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca is the first European to set foot in what would become Texas ...

A white granite headstone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery bears a name that sounds American: Larry Allan Thorne. But the man buried there was born Lauri Allan Törni in Viipuri, Finland, ...

Around 50 Chechen militants stormed a theatre in Moscow and took as many as 850 people captive on02. The hostage crisis ended after three days when Russian special forces troops filled the theatre ...

Discover why the Soviet Union ordered 3,000 British Valentine tanks during WWII—more than any other Allied tank model. This documentary[...] ...

War and Occupation on and behind the camera - The actors who put on khaki to fight at the front, and those who took on film ...

Putin is massing air defences around Moscow for a long winter of drone attacks. That means leaving other areas undefended, ...

The Battle of Britain ended 85 years ago today—closing a months-long air war with clear parallels to the ongoing fight in the skies over Ukraine.

A planned summit between US president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin was put on hold on Tuesday, as Moscow’s rejection of an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine cast a cloud over ...

Right-wing media claim that Portland’s protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement show a city “under siege” or “conquered by antifa,” but on-the-ground coverage, by both national media ...