British troops were withdrawing from Sierra Leone today, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said. About 200 troops have been wrapping up their operations over the past couple of weeks following the ...

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The Balkan Wars (1912-1913) proved that the Megali Idea—the nationalist concept and goal to expand the Greek state to include ...

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A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

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Doron Steinbrecher, one of the Israeli hostages released on Sunday, is handed over by Hamas fighters to a Red Cross official in Gaza City After 15 months of war that began with a brutal attack on ...

There's been 96 winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture to date. Here are the 13 I think you should watch first, and ...

Sculptures looted by British soldiers from the Kingdom of Benin in ... CHRIS DELMAS//Getty Images Three Egon Schiele works—"Russian War Prisoner" (L), "Portrait of a Man" (R) and "Girl With ...

The Second Civil War ... in British history. This was a struggle between King Charles I and Parliament over how, and in whose interests, the country should be governed. But what about the soldiers ...

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