As Bulgaria prepares to welcome the euro on January 1, 2026, we look back at a year that saw our readers grapple with ...

In a narrow sense, the Admiral Hipper “won” the naval battle; it inflicted damage on the British convoy and escaped to fight ...

Eighty-one years ago this month, on Dec. 16, 1944, German forces launched their last major offensive on the Western Front. The Battle of the Bulge would become the largest and bloodiest single battle ...

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on ...

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A German mother sheltered three lost American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge—and did the same for German soldiers hours later.

Poland detained a Russian archaeologist who works on an ancient site in Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014. Ukraine calls the work illegal. By Valerie Hopkins Reporting from Berlin The Kremlin has ...

Today, we commemorate the 81st anniversary of the legendary Battle of the Bulge—the largest and deadliest battle fought by American forces in the Second World War, which culminated in a blistering, ...

Crimea has long been Putin’s prized staging ground, but Ukraine’s Ghost Unit has turned the peninsula into a graveyard of Russian assets. In just two weeks, drones struck radar stations, aircraft, and ...

MINSK, December 17. /TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko believes that Ukrainians simply handed Crimea over to Russians and that no one fought for it, he ...