Who leads the opposition: Abu Mohammed al-Golani, a former al-Qaida commander who cut ties with the group years ago and says he embraces pluralism, leads the biggest rebel faction and is poised to chart the country’s future direction. Trump’s reaction: President-elect Donald Trump said tha...
Like thousands of other Russian soldiers, he deserted the army. “I joke that I gave birth to myself,” he said. “When a woman gives birth to a child, she experiences very intense pain and gives new life. I gave myself life after going through very intense pain.”...
in early 1946 after surviving 15 months in the Pacific theater. He was discharged in Georgia, and was still in his Army uniform traveling home to South Carolina on a Greyhound bus. He had the audacity to ask to be treated like a man. He asked a bus driver if there would be enough ...
It was all that, packaged together for the biggest stage the president will likely get this year. It was telling, in a way, that many of the more aggressive lines came early in the night, when viewership was largest and when the president had the most energy. Biden needed to turn t...
Once in power, Lenin withdrew Russia from the war against Germany, but his Red Army ended up fighting a three-year civil war with the White Army, a coalition of monarchists,capitalists, foreign invaders, and democraticsocialists. To fund the war, Lenin instituted something called “War Commun...
A schism has opened in Trump’s Republican Party over the issue of immigration – specifically visas allowing highly skilled workers into the U.S. Laura MannweilerDec. 30, 2024 The Key Supreme Court Decisions of 2025 Fresh off a term in which many of its biggest decisions considered U.S...
Prabowo Subianto was ahead in the polls before the vote and had a commanding lead as unofficial results trickled in on Monday. With most of the ballots counted, the 72-year-old former army general appeared to have captured more than 55% of the vote. If he holds that lead, and gets ...
“Yes, we have criticized Western policies,” he said. “But to wage a war against the United States or Europe from Syria, that’s not true. We didn’t say we wanted to fight.” Show commentsBoston Globe Today 2024 in Sports: Biggest moments of the year...
Rebels fired into the air in celebration, and youths tore down posters of the Syrian president, whose territorial control has collapsed in a dizzying week-long retreat by the military. The fall of Homs gives the insurgents control over Syria's strategic heartland and a key highway c...
It was 1917, and the Great War (later known as World War I), the one to end all wars, had been raging in Europe for nearly three years. In April, the United States finally got involved. At Yale University, a young soldier, Private J. Robert Conroy, found a brindle terrier mix pupp...