Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 4th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

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In 1941, the formation of the first group of Black military pilots and mechanics was underway in Tuskegee, Alabama where ...

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The legal onslaught on Moscow’s second-largest airport has been seen as part of the Kremlin’s wartime drive to seize control of key assets still in private hands. By Nataliya Vasilyeva A ...

February 20, 2025 • After 14 years of a devastating civil war, Syria is in the process of reinventing itself. One big question is how the country will be governed now that the more than 50 years ...