The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

The Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier has suffered several accidents from 2009 to 2019, and has been undergoing overhaul and ...

Manchester's own piece of Cold War history survives in the form of the Guardian telephone exchange. Also known as 'Scheme 567 ...

Truth has become a battleground, and so has the media. What appears as news often conceals agendas. Behind some press ...

As Europe rethinks its security, China stakes a global claim, and the US turns unpredictable, the cinders of the post–World ...

Preventing the formation of a new axis is a valuable pursuit for the West. It should learn from the past – rather than repeating it – by avoiding the mistakes of Kissinger's attempt to destabilise ...

When Ukraine turned a corner of Russia’s Kursk region into a battlefield, it set in motion some of the war’s fiercest fighting. Our photographer documented the aftermath.

Amid widespread reports of Russian abuses against residents, Vladimir Putin said living standards in the Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine should reach the average level for Russia by 2030. That’s ...