In 1954, the French were finally defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. This defeat was formalised in the Geneva Agreement and temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones: a ...

Reports say an incident occurred in Rafah in the early hours of Sunday as people were queueing for aid. The response is seen as neither an explicit rejection nor clear acceptance of the proposal ...

That decision makes the future of Trump’s trade war even more uncertain. Today, I talk to Victor Schwartz, the wine importer at the center of the case, about why he decided to take on the ...

Russia told Ukraine at peace talks on Monday that it would only agree to end the war if Kyiv gives up big new chunks of territory and accepts limits on the size of its army, according to a ...

At secondary school he withdrew psychologically, preferring to re-enact battles from the Boer War than study. He left school with no qualifications at 16. Hitler dreamt of a career as an artist.

For example, its khaki uniforms and pith helmets could for many in the still war-shocked Afrikaner community, easily have simply represented the garb of Lord Roberts and Kitchener's triumphant forces.

Viljoen was born on October 1933 on a farm in Standerton. Viljoen’s paternal grandfather, a deeply religious man, fought in the Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902) for the Boer republics against the invading ...

but [he] lost neither his heart nor his head". He was invalided to Australia the following year. During the Second World War Blackburn led the 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion in Syria. In 1942 the ...

International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of ...