During World War Two, a pair of physicists went to great lengths to keep their Nobel Prize medals out of the hands of the Nazis. Here’s the absolutely wild story.

This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

Germany captured an American Sherman tank in North Africa and tested it exhaustively throughout 1943. What German engineers ...

Russia has lost around 1.2 million soldiers during the Ukraine War—a number that pales in comparison to its losses during the ...

In November 1942, during World War II, German soldiers in North Africa examined a captured American Jeep. What they ...

Amid rising global tensions and a new military gap year programme, we look at which jobs were historically exempt from ...

Germany’s worst blackout since World War II left 45,000 Berlin households without power after a suspected arson attack on key ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

Plaques commemorating African American soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Approximately 1 million African American ...

Nearly one million African American soldiers fought in Europe during World War II. Now, plaques at a memorial site honoring the sacrifice of African American soldiers in the Netherlands have been ...

When Germany opened its doors to refugees escaping war in the Middle East, more people arrived from Syria than any other country – finding homes, getting jobs, starting families. A question mark now ...