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

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

Controversy of the week A grim anniversary When ...

The last time most Libyans saw Saif al-Islam Gaddafi alive was in 2021. Muammar Gaddafi’s son, who for some time had been considered his heir apparent, had not been seen for years before, to the exten

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