Key: On this table, figures originally given in various local coinages have all been converted to livres tournais, worth about £4 sterling; s, shilling, of which there were 12 to the pound; d, penny, ...

The IRGC proved its worth during the eight year war with Iraq. This began in 1980 when Iraq sought to grab some Iranian oil fields on the border while the Iranian civil war was still underway. The ...

January 28, 2025: Ukraine has been fighting the Russian invaders for three years now. The expensive Russian failure to conquer Ukraine is largely due to Ukrainian ingenuity and innovations. Russia ...

The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) and the U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine ...

Israel and Jordan worked out a deal, perhaps with some international organizations, for running Jerusalem. Israel tried to get Arab states to stop treating all the Palestinians like refugees and ...

U.S. Soldiers assigned to the Regimental Engineer Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, conduct training at the Engagement Skills ...

January 27, 2025: Like World War II, Ukraine is a war between a dictatorship and a democracy. Russian leader Vladimir Putin does not consider the struggle with Ukraine a war, but rather an uprising in ...

January 21, 2025: In late 2024 Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency reported that it had arrested seven Israelis who had been operating as Iranian spies since the October 2023 Hamas uprising in ...

Senior Airman Seth Anderson, 736th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron aerospace propulsion specialist, salts the flightline at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Jan. 8, 2025. The base received more than six ...

A five-ship formation, including the T-1A Jayhawk center, flies together at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, on Dec. 17, 2024.

January 18, 2025: On January 11, 2025, several dozen Israeli, American and British warplanes struck economic and military targets in Yemen. This was another effort to halt the Yemen Houthi rebels from ...