Hundreds of prisoners of war from Allied countries were held at brutal Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Their presence during the Aug 9, 1945, ...

A lawsuit alleges Texas Instruments, AMD, and Intel chips ended up in foreign weapons used to kill Ukrainian civilians. Plaintiffs say the companies failed to prevent diversion of their tech through ...

From Chinese meddling to staged scam-center crackdowns and a sham election, The Irrawaddy looks back at the key events and ...

North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals and refused to set a date to resume discussions. Five days later, American B ...

Thai officials have reported that a rocket attack from Cambodia on Sunday killed a 63-year-old villager, marking the first civilian death reported from the fighting over the past week. Casualties have ...

There’s currently lots of angst about our military strikes against cartel drug runners in the Caribbean. Very touching. Witness the Dec. 7 letter to the editor "Second-tap boat bombing was a war crime ...

From Chinese meddling to staged scam-center crackdowns and a sham election, The Irrawaddy looks back at the key events and figures in another difficult year for Myanmar.

The U.S. military knew the identities of the 11 men killed in a Sept. 2 boat strike in the Caribbean and approved the hit because the crewmembers apparently had loose ties to a drug cartel, the ...

With this year marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, there were many events, media features and other efforts in Japan revisiting t･･･ ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the world it must apply more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine after he said Moscow's forces had launched a "massive" ...

“Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of ...

Four ways of ending life remain or have become legal in the eyes of at least some of the United States, notes the aut ...