An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

“Maverick” was Kilmer’s swan song; after battling throat cancer for several years, the actor died of pneumonia Tuesday. He ...

In years past, Israel might have been content to stop there. But its current leaders favour an unbridled assertion of power, some for pragmatic reasons, others for ideological ones. They are seizing ...

The west will surely have to pay a heavy price one day for its culpability in this evil. Israel should have been stopped ...

Last February, a Ukrainian company commander going by his callsign Veter was ordered to send his people to reinforce another ...

Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...

The vast difference between Haiti and the Dominican Republic ...

The earthquake has killed more than 1,700 people in Myanmar and Thailand while leaving at least 2,300 injured - the death toll is expected to rise further as rescuers continue to search the rubble ...

In Chicago, Boystown — with its mix of cocktail lounges, gay bars, nightclubs, parades and drag brunches — has become a ...

A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Myanmar, causing damage and casualties across the country and in neighbouring ...

Here is a map of the damage ... and protect the post-World War II order in the West. It also enabled Ukrainians to survive three long years of fighting against a far larger, vastly more powerful ...