P-39 was much better suited for the medium and lower altitudes where most Eastern European air combat took place. Soviet ...

The fall of Assad punctuates—again—what has been a very bad stretch for the Islamic Republic. As others have observed, the ...

As in many parts of the world, history is very much a political weapon in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is difficult to assess conflicts in Syria (and the British/Western interest) for this reason, ...

Jean-Marie Loret, 1918 born French, is the subject of one of the really most interesting and even most controversial claims ...

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev was one of the most well-known Soviet snipers during the Second World War, with an extraordinary capability to hit during the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee ...

Syrian rebels who have swept to the capital, Damascus, said they were also entering the city of Deir Ezzour, far to the east. They said hundreds of personnel with the Assad regime had surrendered to ...

William Manchester in his magnificent three-volume biography (the third volume completed by Paul Reid after Manchester’s ...

Basing the conclusions on expenditures on sign-on bonuses and earlier research, Meduza estimates that the Russian military ...

Donors and fundraisers say that with a fraction of the billions in official aid given to Ukraine, they can exhaust Russia's ...

Amidst the looming threat of the Russia-Ukraine war engulfing neighboring countries, the NATO's eastern members like Poland ...

The Kremlin is paying a butcher’s bill in broken bodies and smashed equipment to keep its offensives in Ukraine’s Donbas and ...