On June 19, 1864, the Union sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge laid in wait outside the French port of Cherbourg for the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama. The Confederate warship had wreaked havoc ...

A Rwanda-backed militia seized the pivotal Congolese city of Goma this week, threatening a new humanitarian crisis after decades of fighting. By Elian Peltier Reporting from Dakar, Senegal.

Richard Kelliher (1910-1963) was born in Ireland and migrated ... Kelliher was awarded the Victoria Cross, service medals for the Second World War and the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.

Jon Jackson is a News Editor at Newsweek based in New York. His focus is on reporting on the Ukraine and Russia war. Jon previously worked at The Week, the River Journal, Den of Geek and Maxim.

Carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) pulled into Laem Chabang, Thailand, on Monday for a port visit after three weeks of operating in the South China Sea. Meanwhile, the French Carrier Strike Group is ...

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War fervour has subsided in Ukraine, but not the desire to live and the drive to carry on against all odds.

QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - The body of Quincy native and war hero Capt. Richard Stratton returned home via Logan Airport on Sunday. Stratton passed away on Jan. 18. He was 93 years old. Stratton was ...

But Trump’s second trade war is shaping up to be much different from his first. The president’s ambitions for a reordering of world commerce are broader. The opposition — at home and abroad ...

The UN General Assembly has affirmed Russia's responsibility to pay reparations estimated at $500 billion in damages caused by the war, but questions remain on how to unlock these frozen funds.

In backstage scrums, designers are often asked if their collections are reactions to current affairs: The presidential inauguration, the world’s tilt to the right, economic woes. All came up ...

US President Donald Trump has claimed that the war in Ukraine could be brought to an end by a fall in the price of oil. Speaking via video link at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday ...