The perennially controversial question of “Who Started World War I,” is revisited by Prof. Mombauer (Open University, U.K.), in this thoroughly revised edition of her The Origins of the First World ...

If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.

This article appears in the February 2025 print edition with the headline “The New Rasputins.” ...

Syria's economy has been decimated by more than a decade of civil war and sanctions that have severed it from the global ...

Residents and medics said at least 14 people were in the house of one family when the strike destroyed the building.

The convoy included 22 trucks carrying food from the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), one truck from Medecins ... parties cut off access. Since the war began in April 2023 between the Sudanese ...

Khartoum was in "desperate need" of the food supplies, one humanitarian ... first time since civil war erupted in April 2023. The country is currently experiencing the "world's worst hunger ...

The World Bank and other development partners would be engaged because they possess the expertise and experience to support this initiative. This Independent assessment would provide valuable ...

The Christmas tradition has become nearly global in scope: Children from around the world track Santa ... such as the one in 2018, and this year. Here’s how it began and why the phones keep ...

LVIV, Ukraine—Late one evening last summer ... He then set down the two hydraulic car jacks he had brought with him and began to slowly pry up the heavy marble slab encasing the spy’s remains.

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The quest begins Thursday against Finland ... are in the mix for June's No. 1 selection. The pressure of the world juniors is immense — perhaps even more so when the event is at home.