ARTEFACT OF WAR

This moment is surely imbued with the most global symbolism. It was when, according to the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, adventurers sailed across the north Atlantic from settlements on the west coast of

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AL MUTHANNA GOVERNORATE, IRAQ 27-28 FEBRUARY 1991

From the 1940s until 2024, the challenge facing ...

Is this the age of dictators?” asked veteran journalist Sir Sidney Low. He was writing in September 1923, the month in which a military coup brought Miguel Primo de Rivera to power in Spain. At the sa