The victory in Rhineland-Palatinate softens the blow after the Christian Democratic Union suffered a blistering defeat in a ...

Samusenko was a woman who defied conventional gender norms and societal expectations to fight for her country during one of ...

World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, along with a handful of courageous resisters. But it is the people ...

Fatih Akin directs Diane Kurger in the coming-of-age drama 'Amrum,' set against the backdrop of an island in the last year of ...

Quite simply the greatest upset in World Cup final history. In the group stage at the 1954 World Cup, West Germany were hammered 8-3 by the great Hungarian team of Ferenc Puskas and Sandor Kocsis.

Downfall, Oppenheimer, and Inglourious Basterds are great war movies that represent the genre's best in the 21st century.

As the ongoing U.S. strike on Iran entered its tenth day, reports surfaced Sunday that the beleaguered Islamist regime had selected Mojtaba Khamenei to be the country’s next supreme leader ...

A massive victory in a global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism leads to a wave of new democracies, especially in central and eastern Europe. The United States’ brand of aggressive and ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...

On June 22, 1944, exactly three years after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, 2.4 million Red Army soldiers launched Operation Bagration—the most devastating military defeat in German history. This ...

After the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, many believe the fighting simply stopped but for over 11,000 trapped German soldiers, surrender was never an option. In this gripping World War II ...