Germany is deploying a brigade in Lithuania, a NATO ally bordering Russia, in its first such major permanent deployment ...

Russian security forces are strengthening their influence in northern Norway — and sowing division within the country.

Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto was long neglected but is now being championed by Joshua Bell, while Ukraine is once ...

American troops were facing an impossible enemy—German heavy armor like the Panther and Tiger. But in the late days of WWII, ...

Offensive Miniatures has recently introduced some more World War II sets to their 28mm collection for those seeking some ...

While the world watched Normandy, the Soviet Union launched Operation Bagration in the East, a far larger and more ...

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Russia fired a wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing at least six people including two children, and cutting power to tens of thousands, officials said Sunday.Russia fired more ...

The Battle of Stalingrad marked the turning point of World War II on the Eastern Front. It transformed the momentum of the war, shifting the balance of power from Nazi ...

Having entered the kindergarten the year Nixon and Kissinger entered the White House, I remember classmates thrilling to their foreign policy adventures: The undeniable fun of ping-pong diplomacy, the ...

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.

MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/. Russia has saved Europe for centuries, there can be no mistake about that, Errol Musk, father of US entrepreneur Elon Musk, told TASS in an interview.