The First World War began on 28 July 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the ...

In his play “Archduke,” playwright Rajiv Joseph suggests that history is frequently made by accidents or coincidence. Facts ...

There is a story people tell themselves about how world wars begin: a single shot (the World War I assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand), a single invasion (Hitler marching troops into Poland).

Explore the history of WWI and WWII from the spark of the Archduke's assassination to the global shift of the Cold War. Discover the major alliances, key battles and how these conflicts led to the ...

Israeli strike has not brought peace closer — it has made it a distant, perhaps impossible, dream Syed Shahab Ud Din Andrabi Peace in the Middle East was an aspiration which everyone yearned to ...

I refer specifically to June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his pregnant wife Sophie were shot and killed on a ...

The recently adopted initiative of the Sarajevo City Council to reinstall the monument to Austro-Hungarian heir apparent Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie at the site near the Latin Bridge ...

But really, has anyone ever cast a longer and darker shadow from the grave than Jeffrey Epstein? American presidents shudder at his name, a British ambassador to Washington has been fired, a London ...

Cortina-d’Ampezzo, Italy, has changed a lot since 1941, when Italy’s Benito Mussolini held his own world "Games." ...

Some chapters in history read like full-blown thrillers. Moments where world leaders stared down disaster and a single decision could’ve changed everything.

War rarely begins with fire. It begins with a question. What must be done to prevent something worse? What follows is rarely the answer anyone expects.