The fraught relationship between the U.S. and Iran isn't new. U.S. involvement in, and conflict with, Iran is complicated and ...

When Donald Trump launched Operation Midnight Hammer—a high-octane, high-stakes bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities—he may ...

The official focus of the parade was the commemoration of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary. But critics say the president is ...

For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia – … ...

Vladimir Putin’s troops were accused of breaking a three-day ceasefire called to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on Friday.

Confidently rolling toward Ukrainian lines in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast in up-armored vehicles brazenly flying the flag of the defunct Soviet Union, an assault group from the Russian 155th ...

Online voting opens in January, deciding if we want to keep the current flag, choose between one of the new 10 finalists or opt for two previous flags that have flown over Illinois, in 1918 and 1968.

This proved effective in sparking Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's social and political reforms of the late 1980s, best known by the Russian word "glasnost," or "openness.". The Afghan invasion ...

Nikita Kruschev’s attempts to liberalise the leadership of the Soviet Union was ousted by his political rivals on October 14 1964.

At the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Communists had been in power for 74 years in Moscow. The Chinese Communist Party has now surpassed “big brother”, as it once called the ...

The members of the Ukrainian parliament who in 1992 approved the blue-and-yellow flag as the state symbol must have had poor knowledge of history and heraldry… And quite a few home-bred “experts” even ...