When Yasmina Reza’s cerebral play Art arrived in London in 1996, we applauded it as a comedy. Now another French hit, Jean-Philippe Daguerre’s Adieu Monsieur Haffmann, has landed, and the genre ...

The battle for Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II for the Allied powers on the Eastern front. Hitler's army never recovered after that defeat in which 250,000 German soldiers lost ...

From ancient conquests of land, agricultural products, and trade routes to modern geopolitical struggles for natural gas, oil, and minerals, the control over resources has shaped global politics and ...

It is much harder to expound on the destruction that shadowed liberation — the Pearl of the Orient’s capital lay in ruin after a battle often referred to as “the Stalingrad of Asia.” ...

With the disintegration of the Syrian state after 2011, the Kurds in northeast Syria became key players in shaping the country’s future. The recent agreement between Damascus and the Kurdish-led ...

The trouble with leaders growing long in the tooth, from Napoleon to Putin, is that in the end, every hero becomes a bore ...

Earlier this month marked the 80th anniversary of one of the most gruesome battles in World War II history, and you might not ...

The siege of Budapest, one of World War II’s longest urban battles, saw relentless street combat and left the city in ruins.

Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak was born on August 18, 1921, to Vladimir Leontievich Litvyak (a railwayman, train driver, and clerk) and Anna Vasilievna Litvyak (a shop assistant). Young Lydia would ...

PRESIDENT Trump has initiated a positive attitude to Russia that will end the European and American isolation of Russia. I am not a fan of Russian foreign ...