Controversy of the week A grim anniversary When ...

The grisly fate of more than 16,000 soldiers and civilians during the First Anglo-Afghan War serves as a timeless lesson in hubris and bad leadership

Civilian reactors have become strategic cover for Russian forces during their invasion of Ukraine

In this issue’s Frontline, the US in Greenland, its contribution to WWI, nuclear threats in Ukraine, Operation Urgent Fury’s aftermath and Lviv’s troubled history

On the morning of 9 January 1905 (22 January on the New Style calendar Soviet Russia later adopted), a crowd of striking workers marched peacefully through Saint Petersburg towards the Winter Palace,

The conflict between Kyiv and Moscow has become one of attrition, analysts say, with both sides paying a high price for small gains