Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.

However, the illegal fentanyl pipeline has switched from direct export into the U.S. to Mexico, where fentanyl is manufactured and then smuggled into the U.S. While synthetic opioids like fentanyl are ...

The Chinese resisted the opium trade. This led to war, after the Chinese destroyed all the British opium in China. The Chinese army and navy were no match for the British navy. As a result of ...

While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, beginning with the First Opium War. In his new history, Amitav Ghosh ...

Martin Danahay, Professor of English Language and Literature at Brock University, recently wrote a piece published in The Conversation about how the Opium Wars can provide insights into the ...

Tommy Gulliksen’s documentary “Facing War,” which depicts Jens Stoltenberg’s final year as NATO secretary general, has been selected as the opening film of the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary ...

People gathered in downtown Toronto to protest ‘Russians at War’ documentary at Toronto International Film Festival. (Dmytro Basmat / Kyiv Independent). Editor's note: This article has been updated to ...