The Israel Defence Forces were formed by uniting Zionist paramilitary groups, WWII veterans and Holocaust survivors ...

Decades after “28 Days Later,” the director Danny Boyle and the screenwriter Alex Garland return to—and advance—a ...

The Austrian writer Stefan Zweig moved in a cosmopolitan Europe and wore his Jewish identity lightly. Hitler’s rise put it ...

On June 25, 1950, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War that cost millions of ...

Syria has carried out its first international bank transaction via the SWIFT system since the outbreak of its 14-year civil ...

Before the First World War, William volunteered with local militia units in both Scotland and Canada. While in Lindsay, he was a Captain with the 45th Victoria Regiment and joined the thousands of men ...

These uncertain and threatening days will eventually be in the past. But we have to live through them now, and take the right ...

This is an English translation of a Dutch text about the 'Manifesto des Seize' of 1916 by Homme Wedman. First published in Dutch in 1995 in the 'Tweede Jaarboek Anarchisme / De AS 112' under the title ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in Tehran for the funeral of top Iranian commanders and scientists killed in a ...

Syria this week carried out its first international bank transfer via the SWIFT international payment system since the outbreak of the country’s 14-year civil war, central bank governor Abdelkader ...

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