The stakes were high. The Soviets were pushing a vision of global Communism, and the conflict in Vietnam was flashing hot, the North Vietnamese fueled by a ruthless mix of dogma and revolutionary ...

Up to three million Afghans were estimated to have been killed by the time the Soviets withdrew in 1989. The Taliban, which emerged from the militias that helped defeat the Soviets, then came to ...

Like all good RTS titles, there are multiple factions here, paralleling the GDI/Nod and Allies/Soviets options in Command and Conquer titles. | Image credit: Digital Foundry Plenty is done well on ...

Weather reports were invaluable for both ship captains and pilots waging war across the European continent, particularly for the Soviets. In 1941, Allied forces discovered their uncoded weather ...

An unknown shooter fired the round that, ultimately, culminated in creating the nation that would defeat the Nazis and the Soviets. Advertisement Yet many will not recall why the British showed up ...

But the Kings finished the season series 3-1 against Edmonton as Warren Foegele and Kevin Fiala each had a goal and an assist and Quinton Byfield and Vladislav Gavrikov also scored. Darcy Kuemper ...

When Nazi Germany took the city in 1941, it murdered thousands of Jews, and in 1944, the Soviets killed some 4,500 Germans and destroyed much of the city. In 1947, Major League Baseball's color ...

Bór-Komorowski was aware that his forces could hold the initiative for only a few days until the advancing Soviets crossed the Vistula and rid the Poles of the Germans. That did not happen.

The UFO (not pictured) was reportedly shot at by the Soviets over Ukraine (Picture: Getty Images) Somewhere in a secret scientific building outside Moscow stand the remains of 23 Soviet soldiers ...

First, the Soviets and then the Russians built their fighting vehicles under the assumption that they would lose many of them in battle, so they emphasized firepower over crew protection.

Declassified CIA files from the Cold War reveal a Soviet encounter with extraterrestrials, which witnesses claim resulted in the highly bizarre deaths of 23 Russian soldiers. Following the ...

leading him to sell the KH-11 spy satellite manual to the Soviets in the 1970s, and U.S. Marine Clayton Lonetree, whose 1980s relationship with a KGB operative lead Russian spies to direct access ...