After fighting broke out in Rwanda on 6 April 1994, an estimated 250,000 Rwandese swept into Tanzania over a 24-hour period in the largest and fastest refugee exodus in history. Fleeing ethnic violence, this Rwandan family has crossed the nearest border to ...
Civil wars are generally less severe than interstate wars, as measured in direct battle deaths. However, civil wars have been more frequent and lengthier, and the great majority of the recorded deaths in battle since the Cold War stem from civil wars. Furthermore, war can have a substantial ...
A History of War On December 16 Putin offered Ukraine $15 billion in loans and reduced gas prices to offset a shortfall in the country’s finances that had been sparked by the near depletion of its hard currency reserves. The parliament enacted draconian anti-protest laws on January 16, 2014...
Yom Kippur War, damaging war between Egypt, Syria, and Israel in October 1973. After years of sporadic fighting since 1967, Egypt and Syria launched a full-scale assault, overwhelming Israel before U.S. support helped Israel turn the tide. The war led Is
The Ukrainian summer counteroffensive and the liberation of Kharkiv oblast Black Sea(more) On June 30 Russian forces were driven from Snake, or Zmiinyi, Island, a small but strategically important outcropping in the western Black Sea. Located roughly 80 miles (130 km) south of Odesa and just...
Greek Civil War, (December 1944–January 1945 and 1946–49), two-stage conflict during which Greek communists unsuccessfully tried to gain control of Greece. The first stage of the civil war began only months before Nazi Germany’s occupation of Greece e
That interpretation of the riots dovetailed effectively with President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “war on poverty” programs, which were then being introduced in cities across the country. The war on poverty thus seemed to be a response to the Watts Riots, and the riots seemed to demonstrate the ...
A History of War After a number of border skirmishes between 1959 and 1962, which began initially as aby-productof the uprising in Tibet, thePeople’s Liberation Army(PLA) of China forcefully attacked across the disputed boundaries on October 20, 1962. Indian forces were soundly defeated, 7,...