Throughout history, with the advancement of weapons technology from catapults and canons to unmanned combat aerial vehicles, there has long been a belief that the infantryman would be rendered ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

A watch that belonged to a soldier during the First World War has been returned to his family in Kent after 107 years. It’s thought that Royal Field Artillery gunner George Burke lost his engraved ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

By Erika SolomonAaron BoxermanRawan Sheikh Ahmad and Saher Alghorra Liquor is leverage as the world careens toward another trade dispute. European tariffs on American whiskey snap back after March ...

The mantle of world No.1 in tennis is something every player aspires for but few ever achieve. When it comes to men's singles, only a handful of names held the top spot over the past two decades.

Pressed on whether this was enough though, given there is now a war in Europe ... with Putin," said the Ukrainian leader. "No one wants peace more than Ukraine. Together with the US, we are ...

The woman, believed to be a Canadian national, had been enjoying a holiday to the Turks and Caicos islands when the bloody attack happened last Friday. She had been just a few yards from the shore ...

The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift in "the world order ... on ending the war between Russia ...

It cast an immense shadow on tens of millions of people. “This is not war,” one wounded soldier wrote home. “It is the ending of the world.” Half of all Frenchmen aged 20 to 32 at war’s outbreak were ...

On September 1, 1939, a massive German force invaded and conquered Poland within a month. It was the start of the Second World War. In April 1940, Germany occupied Denmark and Norway. In May, the ...