In the wake of the U.S. bombing of Iran and its dismissal of European allies, an anxious continent’s best chance at security runs through its largest economy.

Say what you like about Donald Trump, but he recently renamed the US's Department of Defence, the Department of War. Ireland doesn't even have a stand-alone Minister for Defence.

The saga of the rise and fall of the Third Reich could be traced by following events in any one of the countries occupied by the Nazis. Jane Rogoyska has refined this approach by focusing on what ...

Ukraine paid in blood, tears and destruction unseen on the continent since the Second World War in order to be recognised as ...

Dutch novelist, poet and travel writer who reported on the Hungarian revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

Since summer 2025, Russian authorities have struggled to find the thousands of soldiers needed to replenish units suffering ever heavier losses. They have kept the threat of a general mobilization ...

Soccer stadiums can be dominated by violence, tribalism, chauvinism, and near-religious fervor‚ animated by the memory of old hostilities and the power of ritual.

The producers of “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away” are working with Union Station to retell a famous bit of world history during the World Cup.

The fall of Venezuela’s socialist regime marks a generational turning point akin to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, according to an energy expert who says the scenes unfolding there echo the ...

In their military campaign in South America, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth aren’t just defying the Constitution and breaking the law. They are attacking the very character and identity of the American ...

Can everyone else not see what is wrong with this? What is it that we are throwing away? The years since World War II have been the most peaceful in human history. As Steven Pinker showed, we have ...

In April 1945, the Red Army launched its final, vengeful assault on the Nazi capital. The resulting battle was an apocalypse of fire and steel, fought street-by-street through a city of rubble. This ...