Dr Paul Brown reveals Britain’s role in patrolling the seas during the height of Cold War tensions with the USSR

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

The ‘gateway to the West’ has for years become a relative sanctuary from the onslaught on Ukraine’s frontline. But the city and region’s long history has seen it at the centre of countless conquests

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

By spring 1941, the Afrika Korps was advancing across eastern Libya towards Egypt and the Suez Canal. But a dusty port town lay in their path