On Africa's dry western tip, Mauritania has become an unlikely staging post for Ukraine's increasingly global struggle with its adversary Russia.

Lüderitz petitioned the German govern- ment, and the German flag was hoisted in the bay for the first time in 1884, to declare German South West Africa.

Operation Barbarossa transformed Nazi Germany’s war from a one-front struggle, against a weakened Britain and a still-neutral United States, into a two-front conflict. The Eastern Front absorbed as ...

IT is not often that a geological memoir appears in such inspiring circumstances as that issued by the Mines Department of the Union of South Africa on ‘The Geology and Mineral Industry of South ...

Tunnelling with the fervour of an invading army, the millions of insects displace so much earth that pavements above them ...

Beneath G7 downfall, there lies aggrandisement of threats and advancement of self-seeking interests. These narcissistic ...

Private Ken Ward-Harvey was lucky to survive his first encounter with the enemy at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942. Ward-Harvey, a ­combat engineer or “sapper” with the 2/7th Field Company, ...

Timothy Garton Ash on the shocks that fuelled a populist challenge — and how the liberal centre could yet hold ...

The Muslim Ummah of South West Nigeria (MUSWEN) has called on the Ondo State government and security agencies to arrest and punish those responsible for the masquerade invasion of an Imam's House ...

Togo in Africa saw the first battle between Allied and German forces in World War One. They fought for control of the Kamina wireless station.

Does Trump’s personal relationship with world leaders have any bearing on his policies towards their countries?

The recent US decision to bomb what are made out to be some of Iran’s nuclear enrichment plants and connected infrastructure ...