Star shells being fired at night to illuminate no man's land near Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of the Somme, 1916. The British had analysed the failings of the first day of attack and had impl ...

In 1916, the British and French planned the attack in part to break through the German lines and end a stalemate that existed in the trenches in Europe. The Somme Valley in northern France was ...

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On Sept. 11, 2001, four U.S. airliners were highjacked in a coordinated attack by the terrorist organization al-Qaeda against the United States, crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade ...

In the days before the 23rd anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks, a photo purportedly showing a woman in New York City watching one of the Twin Towers burn circulated on social media. For ...

So far, the attacks that targeted Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah members through their pagers have had devastating consequences. The pager explosions killed at least twelve people ...

Initially defenseless against an attack from the air ... And in early summer, during their tragic and misbegotten Somme offensive, tanks rolled onto the battlefield for the first time—to ...

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For instance, later in the Third Age, the remnants of an army of Men that attacks Gondor retreat into the area and ... Morannon owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme." The ...

Battles at Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele come to mind ... lines to redeploy their forces quickly, but they faced attacks on multiple fronts, with dispersed Allied offensives timed for ...

Not the Somme, but Donetsk, not 1916 but now in the ... after meeting traumatized survivors of last year's October the 7th Hamas terrorist attack on a music festival. On my desk, there's a ...