Massacre of royal family in Nepal; Teton Dam collapse kills 11 in Idaho; US Supreme Court upholds convictions of Communist ...

A Palestinian nurse was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza Saturday, hospital authorities said, the latest death by Israeli ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine emperor. Credit: George E. Koronaios /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 On May 29, 1453, the Ottoman army, led by Mehmed the Conqueror, seized Constantinople, ...

Hodan Abby was one of the first Australian women to travel independently to Syria at the height of Islamic State’s rise. More ...

Daniel Goldman discusses what he terms the political cynicism behind Israel's new death penalty law. He details how the Talmudic tradition and the mainstream religious Zionist view is broadly against ...

The Nazis believed they had consigned many of Norway’s wartime heroes to oblivion. History would remember them differently. Just north of Oslo’s main airport, deep within a quiet spruce forest called ...

On this Memorial Day, grieving families are remembering the 13 US troops who have been killed so far in connection with the ...

An Israeli strike killed five police officers in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, said a hospital and the Palestinian ...

Father Emil Kapaun’s capture and death during the Korean War earned him the Medal of Honor and a lasting reputation among ...

It's not Colbert's sense of irony or his political commentary that set him apart from the late-night pack, but his ability to ...