The war in Ukraine traces back to the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukraine's growing ties with NATO. Russia saw this as a ...

In the lead-up to Britain’s Remembrance Day on November 11, a 100-year-old British veteran of the Second World War, Alec ...

Numerous successful secessions have allowed people greater freedom and self-determination: Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire, the Hungarian split with the Soviet Union in 1989, Singapore's ...

The Marshall Plan to rebuild post-World War II Europe has been acclaimed as the most successful foreign assistance program in U.S. history.  The plan, officially known as the European Recovery Program ...

A vast militarization of the education system is gathering pace in Russian classrooms, where students are trained to handle weapons by active soldiers.