A World War Two bomb which was discovered in Newtownards in County Down has been blown up in a controlled explosion. The 500kg (1,100lb) SC-500 bomb was found at a building site at the Rivenwood ...

They're big, intimidating, destructive, and possibly one of the most important assets utilized in World War II. The impact that tanks had on the battlefield during the global conflict cannot be ...

It’s easy, amid all the destruction and suffering in Gaza, to overlook what is happening as little as 34 miles away in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. For much of the past 11 months—during ...

Recent weeks have seen Ukraine launch its own counteroffensive into Kursk—marking the first time Russian territory has been seized since World War II. Kyiv's offensive even sparked nuclear ...

This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. Please review the following troubleshooting tips or contact us at [email protected]. Your guide to the most important world stories of ...

I was about 10-years-old when the phrase "Vatican II" first came into my consciousness. My family was in its regular pew at St. Joseph's parish, and I was in the daze that accompanies elementary ...

Sudan’s war has been raging since April 2023. The country was on a bumpy road to democracy after mass uprisings in 2019 ousted long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir. This all came to a halt when ...

Ukraine attacked Russia's western Kursk region on Aug 6 and has carved out a slice of territory in the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War II. President Vladimir Putin said there ...

But they faced formidable defenses. Bell, from the World War II museum, said the Soviets prepared a series of defensive lines, dug 3,000 miles of anti-tank ditches and laid 400,000 land mines to ...

Ukraine attacked Russia’s western Kursk region on Aug 6 and has carved out a slice of territory in the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War II. Russian President Vladimir Putin said ...

Ukraine attacked Russia’s western Kursk region on August 6 and has carved out a slice of territory in the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War II. President Vladimir Putin said there ...