Introduced in 1967, the Stridsvagn 103 broke all conventions in tank design. With no turret and a fixed gun, this Cold War-era machine relied on hull movement for aiming. Sweden created it not as an ...

The Fairbairn-Sykes isn’t some mall ninja fantasy blade—it’s the real deal, a whispering ghost of war meant for men who got dropped behind enemy lines and didn’t ask for backup.

Formed in 1945 by the victors of World War II, the main aim of the United Nations was to preserve international peace and security. The UN Charter provides for pacific settlement of disputes between ...

In blow to Israeli-backed aid effort, CEO of group supposed to manage it resigns * US National Security Council staff fired en masse, including Mideast, Israel, Iran chiefs ...

Pictures from the visit channeled the 1980s movie Top Gun, as the prime minister spoke to crew members in front of an F35 fighter aircraft and posed with senior military officers on the flight deck.

The assassination attempt came at the height of the Cold War rivalry between the two countries, some 15 years after they split into the US-backed South and the Soviet-supported North at the end of ...

He famously said the mission of a hit squad sent by Pyongyang in 1968 was to “slit the throat” of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul Kim Shin-jo ...

In his obituary in the Lebanese Star, he was described as ‘a commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was the ball-point pen, and his arena the newspaper pages.’ Kanafani was a writer attuned to ...

As a boy growing up in Dorset near the the military bases at Bovington and Lulworth, I was always facinated by war and read the Commando war comics. Many of my friends were too, several who have ...

On the night of March 26, 1945, near the end of World War II, a group of British special forces paratroopers, together with Italian partisans, as part of what was known as Operation Tombola, attacked ...