It is four years since Russia invaded Ukraine, intensifying a conflict that has now cost hundreds of thousands of lives in a dystopian, attritional war which has further imperilled wider world peace.

An abandoned oil pump jack stands in Cabimas, Venezuela, on Jan. 7, 2026. Our guest columnist writes that although President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise of getting the U.S. out of foreign ...

The story begins with Glenn’s grandfather, Walther Fassmann, who learned the electroplating trade in his native Germany in 1910 when he was 14 years old. Six years later, at the start of World War I, ...

In the 1630s, King Charles I tried to tax English people without the consent of their legislature. He lost his head. In the ...

Iran military confrontation could be imminent as President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu consider action against Ayatollah Khamenei's regime.

Over four decades after the 1984 Winter Olympics, Sarajevo is contending with what to do with its Olympic venues. Many are abandoned and crumbling.

At the time of Ramirez's capture, Nato forces, led by the US, were just days into a massive air campaign aimed at forcing the ...

This video maps the Yugoslav Wars from 1991 to 2001, tracing the violent breakup of Yugoslavia into multiple independent states. Through animated maps and timelines, we follow the conflicts in ...

This article may sit uneasily among others that look at developments of Russian and us imperialism, the movements of capital, energy markets, etc., in trying to understand the war in Ukraine. I want ...

BIRN has launched a ten-part podcast of its ‘Women’s Wars’ series, which profiles courageous women activists and journalists who worked for justice and freedom in the Yugoslav wars years. Illustration ...

Since the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, Serbia has been going through a permanent structural crisis. The destruction of the Yugoslav state not only produced new nation-states: it paved ...

Croatia intends to use the Leopards to phase out its aging Yugoslav-era T-84 tanks—which are likely to be donated to Ukraine as the replacement goes on. This month, the Croatian Ministry of Defense ...