By Uditha Devapriya Review of Sacred Sites of Sri Lanka by Donald Stadtner (River Books Thailand, Sailfish Publications Sri Lanka, 324 pages, Rs 10,000) I don’t think it’s proper to begin a book ...

The Battle of Britain ended 85 years ago today—closing a months-long air war with clear parallels to the ongoing fight in the skies over Ukraine.

After almost four years of war, the cost of fighting is huge. By the end of 2025, Ukraine’s military effort, defined as its ...

In July 2021, Putin penned a history-laden pamphlet arguing that Ukrainians and Russians are kindred nations, artificially ...

It is not me… but a dead man speaking through my lips.” So begins A Shadow of Myself, Peter Flamm’s furious tale of a German veteran returning home after the First World War. The delirious narrator ...

The Russian people must transcend centuries of indoctrination and figure out what it means to be no longer an empire.

Agree with Joe Frank in Sound off on 10/8/25. Sound Off used to be helpful, humorous, and even worthwhile reading. Now, ...

Washington — After his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House Friday, President Trump said both Russia and Ukraine should declare victory and "let history decide!" ...

Ukraine has always been a complicated place, with one foot in the West and the other in the East, resulting in a unique tension as a constantly contested borderland, a battleground, pitting the tribes ...

President Trump during a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it is not “easy” for the U.S. to give long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, as Washington needs ...

Almost everyone knows about Japanese Ninjas and Chinese Shaolin monks. Their combat skills are well promoted in Hollywood. However, few know that at one time in Europe there were soldiers, whose ...