In the ninth and tenth centuries, castles were often built of wood and easily burned down by enemies. As unrest spread across ...

Unspoken and unnamed, sexual violence has too often been tacitly accepted as an inevitable byproduct of war. It isn’t. Sexual violence is a grave violation of international humanitarian law.

But almost no attention has been placed on one of the major contributors to this inflation: the war in Ukraine, and the decision to repeatedly reject negotiating its end. Of course, Ukrainians ...

When Timothy Ash travelled around the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, he met young veterans who had returned from the war in Afghanistan. They were psychologically broken – and drunk. “They ...

A Russian missile attack on a town in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region killed at least four people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. More than a dozen others were wounded, including a ...

When the fighting flared up again in late November, it marked a stunning challenge to Assad that refocused global attention on the nation’s years-long civil war. Since its start in 2011 ...

sowing a greater sense of instability on the continent than at any time since the Cold War. Use the map below to explore the full list of recent acts of sabotage and violence across Europe.

Taken together, the conclusion becomes unavoidable: that over the last 12 months, as the West has continued to support Ukraine’s war efforts, Russia has dramatically escalated its acts of ...

Taken together, the conclusion becomes unavoidable: that over the last 12 months, as the West has continued to support Ukraine’s war efforts, Russia has dramatically escalated its acts of sabotage ...

Happy BHP day! From midnight tonight, the Australian miner is free under UK market rules to make another bid for Anglo American, after the latter spurned a complex £39bn all-share offer in May.

Meanwhile, President Zelenskyy said NATO security guarantees could stop the war's "hot stage." Follow DW. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov on ...

Russian forces have made incremental gains across different parts of the front line this week, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), whose maps show the latest state of play in ...