Two of my paternal Cavan aunts worked as nurses in London during World War 2. Auntie Maggie vividly remembered the Blitz and dealing with ...

Events are moving fast. Seven days ago, as I write, Israel had not yet launched its first attacks on targets in Iran. Seven ...

The conflicts between Israel and Iran, Russia and Ukraine, and potentially China and Taiwan, are closely related. In ...

Imagine it's 1966, and you're living in East Berlin, a city divided by the infamous Berlin Wall. The East German government, desperate to prevent citizens from fleeing to the West, has fortified every ...

The Allied Museum is located in the middle of the former US sector. The history of the Western Allies in Berlin after the Second World War is covered in the permanent exhibition.

As our president seeks resolution of the Ukrainian struggle, it cannot end in a forced Ukrainian capitulation.

The 'barrier of suspicion' that marked the beginning of the Cold War ... My father stayed on in Berlin for several more weeks, ... Map shows UK street parties as Brits commemorate 80th anniversary.

Cold War Berlin: Divided City, Shattered Lives. Posted: March 14, 2025 | Last updated: March 14, 2025. The film "Berlin: Outpost of Freedom" explores the ideological division of Berlin during the ...

An 80-year-old ex-Stasi officer was sentenced to 10 years for a Cold War-era murder on Monday. Martin Naumann shot 38-year-old Polish citizen Czesław Kukuczka at a border crossing in Berlin, 50 ...

With West Berlin’s population already nervous, any change in West Berlin’s status or in the size of Western forces there would pose a severe morale problem; but, after all, even the present ...

American histories of the Cold War tend to depict the Berlin Wall as a symbol of the era’s worst depredations. In doing so, however, Americans forget the complexity of the 15-year crisis over the ...

The Cold War lasted for another 30 years until Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall was torn down and communist regimes in Eastern Europe were booted out after free elections.