Since July 2012, the world has watched in horror as the once-beautiful and vibrant Syrian city of Aleppo has been transformed into a perpetual battlefield. Those killed in Aleppo, as well as ...

They were the five months that changed the war, if not the world. In what Jochen Hellbeck calls “the most ferocious and lethal battle in human history,’’ more than one million people perished, along ...

The Battle of Stalingrad, with its five months of fierce fighting, began exactly 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1942. An estimated 750,000 Soviets died defending the city, delivering an enormous blow to ...

The Russian city of Volgograd has regained its Soviet name Stalingrad once again in commemoration of one of World War II's turning-point battles, national daily Moskovsky Komsomolets reports. In 2013, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to attend a laying ceremony at the monument to Motherland during ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad in the southern Russian ...

As the Nazi blitzkreig pushed deep into the Soviet Union during the summer of 1942, Joseph Stalin ordered that in Stalingrad, the city that bore his name, the Red Army end its retreat and mount a ...

It may have happened over 71 years ago but the Battle of Stalingrad still thrives in the hearts and minds of 1C Game Studios. Composed of avid military historians and WWII enthusiasts, 1C has ...

Drawing on previously unavailable Soviet archives, beginning a couple of decades ago with the impressive works of David Glantz, Western scholars have been rewriting the history of the Russo-German War ...

Manchester Metropolitan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. In 1944, Stalingrad (as Volgograd was called until 1961) and the British city of Coventry became the first Anglo ...

Though Stalingrad carried significant military importance, the psychological importance both leaders placed on the city elevated it to a level of importance above perhaps even the capital city of ...