July 26 marks 80 years since the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, in which the United States, Britain and China called on Japan to ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human relations—play a crucial part in making and unmaking alliances. Personal ...

There was just one moment in the appalling White House attempt to besmirch the reputations of a former president and a first ...

Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, pressure to succeed and trying to fit in; but also experience of famine, exile ...

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, in the Cecilienhof Palace. The key issues discussed and ...

The meeting will end in the usual whimper with a fleeting sideways glance at productivity, where business groups have already ...

You might want to think again before you snap a selfie with one of these controversial statues Controversial moments in history Not all historical monuments are universally admired. Many are actually ...

Old men cry war, young men die - Part 1When Eric Johnston, who befriended Stalin at the Kremlin in 1944, was asked if he thought ‘Uncle Joe’ — short f.

As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his assessment of Vichy and in his calculation that such ruthless action would convince ...

Analyzing the outcomes of the Israel-Iran conflict and its implications on the Middle East.

Kim Jong Un erases two officials from months-old state photos, prompting fears they were executed over botched warship launch: report ...