In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France into direct conflict with President Nasser of Egypt, a proud Arab nationalist determined to stand up to ...

From 1799, when Bonaparte's engineers sought to find at the Isthmus of Suez a road to India for French armies, the potential wartime uses of a canal there dominated discussions regarding its ...

Since it was completed in 1869, the Suez Canal has been one of the world’s most important bodies of water; a portal between East and West that has been controlled by multiple countries ...

My father went through a high point and a low point in that war. The high point was when he led the crossing of the Suez Canal into Egypt as the commander of the first Israeli tank to cross it.

By Jenny Gross The Ever Given, one of the world’s largest container ships, careened out of control in March 2021, slamming into the banks of the Suez Canal and blocking the waterway. Nearly as ...