Montenegro marks its Statehood Day today in memory of July 13, 1878, when it received international recognition as an ...

Adolf Hitler's army launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in history, sweeping into Russia with devastating speed. The Red Army, poorly organized and underprepared was caught off-guard ...

The budget debate in the Bundestag was a repulsive spectacle, demonstrating the ruthlessness with which the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats are implementing a reckless programme of rearmament ...

ON June 22 1941 Nazi Germany began its invasion of the Soviet Union. This history of its first weeks is based on a decade’s research, into official documents, personal diaries and letters, court ...

On Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler held his first Cabinet meeting in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Friends and sycophants ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 10. Check what happened ...

Old men cry war, young men die - Part 1When Eric Johnston, who befriended Stalin at the Kremlin in 1944, was asked if he ...

World War III is most unlikely because of the ‘mutually-assured destruction’ such a gamble portends for the parties. The prospect is forbidden. But error or mistake being a human thing does occur. If ...

A large group of B-17 Flying Fortresses climbs above the clouds seeking altitude during a bombing mission targeting Kiel and ...

Illinois was a top-10 oil producing state from 1941 to 1945, producing 470 million barrels of oil, or 6% of overall U.S. production.

Moving forward, Ukraine’s state security agency, or SBU, used drones Friday to destroy or damage four Sukhoi Su-34 ...

In the face of all attacks, Belarus has adhered to the principles of a peaceful foreign policy, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said during a solemn assembly held on 1 July in anticipation ...