In 2009, the Arzamas Machine-Building Plant in Arzamas, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 250 miles east of Moscow, revealed a new variant of the BTR-80 armored personnel carrier. The BTR-82A—a 17-ton ...

Hundreds of people bid farewell on Friday to Jewhenia Bazylewicz and her three daughters: 21-year-old Jaryna, 18-year-old ...

Following the massacre, during which between 347 and 504 civilians were killed, the story remained largely out of the public eye until the media published Haeberle's photographs in November 1969.

This project is supported by the Pulitzer Center. The killings came to be known as the Haditha massacre. Four Marines were charged with murder, but those charges were later dropped. General James ...

The massacre prompted several trials over many years. The case includes one bribed juror, a hung jury, one bribed judge and the Federal Witness Protection program for Thorson. “Figuring out how ...

The city of Veliky Novgorod in northwestern Russia is known for its unique ancient letters written on birch bark. They are dated back to the 11th-15th centuries. One of the latest discoveries is a ...

The Srebrenica massacre, recognised by the UN as a genocide, was the shocking climax of the war in Bosnia - a conflict that erupted after the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In Bosnia ...

Editor’s note: This story contains graphic images. Viewer discretion is advised. Gunfire rained down on country music fans as they attended a festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, and more ...

Lisa now studies at the University of St Andrews after being shown around the town by her partner Richard For two years following the massacre Lisa tried to continue her life in Norway.

Nobody, not even his own family, was safe from Ivan the Terrible. The massacre of Novgorod proved to be the last moment in the sun for the hated Oprichniki. Ivan’s crushing paranoia had already led ...

That all changed with the darkest incident of the Mormon War, a series of attacks known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The Mormon War The massacre came about in the context of a rising conflict ...

For more than 20 years, New France's diplomacy has protected the colony from Indian attacks. On August 5, 1689, at dawn, 1,500 Iroquois warriors attacked the village of Lachine: 24 colonists were ...