Lightning lined the clouds as a young high school student from northern Oklahoma assembled his gear for a 40-hour pellet-gun battle. Mason Lowery, 17, plans to join the U.S. Army after graduation, but ...

In the U.S., the re-enactment of historical battles has long been a niche hobby. But fake battles that echo an ongoing war ...

Big Oil’s bets on a production rebound ignore the geopolitical and security risks that now threaten every barrel.

The identities of Yellow Ribbon activists who live in Russian-occupied territory have been withheld for security reasons. "When my child hears about May 9 they almost scream, and so do I," an activist ...

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In the American Civil war there were units on both sides which had uniforms heavily influenced by their individual heritage, fashion crazes or special requirements. China surgeon who lost 25kg in ...

Despite losing more than 800,000 troops killed and wounded in the first three years of its wider war on Ukraine, the Russian military has still managed to sustain a front-line force of no fewer ...

Ammunition belts for Russian-made machine guns hang from his ... foreign backers helped turn the tide in the brutal 20-month civil war that’s sparked the world’s biggest displacement crisis ...

For the first time in the country’s civil war ... sect and home to Russian military bases. In a significant development, insurgents have begun entering the capital. Videos circulating online show ...

with Assad and his Russian backers ramping-up their response. Syria's civil war began in 2011 after civilians led pro-democracy protests against Assad, and his government responded by opening fire ...

some allegedly disguised in Ukrainian uniforms, briefly broke through to the outskirts of the northeastern city of Kupiansk but were then forced back, according to military sources. The Russian ...