Christmas diplomacy endures because it stands at the crossroads of culture, power and politics. The season brings with it a set of expectations about restraint and goodwill that leaders can invoke, ...

We were the children of 1812.” That was when Napoleon invaded Russia; two years later Russian forces entered Paris. They ...

Iran has introduced a new pricing tier for its subsidized gasoline, marking the first price adjustment since 2019. The move Saturday comes as the country grapples with a depreciating currency ...

Don’t judge the garden by its harvest but by the seeds that are planted. The saying applies equally to gardening and history. Vladimir Putin has sown a crop in geopolitics that he insists is the only ...

Tonight, the 19th of Kislev, marks the day when the Alter Rebbe was released from prison in Czarist Russia in 1798, and is ...

At least 1,812 people have been killed in the natural disasters rolling across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam over the past two weeks.

An international research team led by France's Pasteur Institute has identified the infectious diseases that plagued Napoleon's French army. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.047) The year 1812 was a disast ...

The Battle of Berezina in 1812 was a significant moment in Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's aborted campaign against Tsarist Russia, with French troops suffering heavy losses as they fled the pursuing ...

Nearly every aspect of Napoleon Bonaparte’s military strategy has been extensively studied for centuries. But if there is a single lesson that anyone—from would-be dictators to casual Risk board game ...

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story. Historians have debated for more than two centuries over which diseases ...

It was the defeat that spelled the beginning of the end for Napoleon. The French emperor's failed invasion of Russia in 1812 left more than 500,000 troops dead, with many long believed to have died ...