The liberation of Bergen-­Belsen concentration camp by British forces on April 15, 1945 was portrayed in the media of the time as the jewel in the crown of British victory over Nazi Germany. Arriving ...

A Council on Foreign Relations symposium on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy since the end of World War II suggests two critical lessons for policymaking today.

“No new wars” carried weight when it constrained someone else. Under current conditions, it has receded. The standard changed ...

Edko Films has revealed that ten award-winning actors have joined the cast of its highly-anticipated action thriller prequel.

Since 1945, several American nuclear weapons have been declared “broken arrows” - lost, crashed, or sunk in accidents that ...

Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern. Why has ...

Japanese atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori has died at age 88. Mori was a historian and best known for a big hug he was given by then U.S. President Barack ...

Ian Buruma was drawn to wartime Berlin because his father, a Dutchman was pressed into factory work there from 1943 to 1945 ...

From the Suez Crisis and Vietnam, to 21st-century political tensions, the alliance between Britain and the United States has ...

The March 4 incident in the Indian Ocean marked the first time an American submarine had torpedoed an enemy vessel since the ...

USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.