Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today ...

Gaza residents face desperation as Israeli attacks persist and essential supplies remain blocked for over a month.

A new book by Miloš Hroch traces the early 1990s shoegaze music scene in this country, when Czech bands made a splash internationally for perhaps the only time.

Khrushchev parried, dividing Berlin with a cement wall ... He announced a naval "quarantine," or blockade, of Cuba which would remain in effect until the Soviets withdrew their missiles.

But the war also changed Russia itself far more than most outsiders grasp. No cease-fire, not even one brokered by a U.S.

UN Special Envoy Huang Xia called for greater coordination of efforts to resolve the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Wednesday amid escalating violence by the M23 rebel group and a ...