Before World War One broke out, alliances were made to ... of war which triggered the alliance systems and drew Germany, France, Russia and Great Britain into a devastating conflict.

In both World Wars, people assume the Allied Powers had a crushing advantage and would have inevitably won the conflicts.

Ukrainian troops sprang one of the biggest surprises of the war by invading Russia's Kursk region last August, and Russia has ...

and cautioned that such talk could lead the West towards the abyss of a new world war. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered the biggest confrontation between the West and Russia since the 1962 ...