How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
Neue Zürcher Zeitung16d
With balloons and handguns, schools in northern Israel reopen for first time since war's start
An archway of balloons awaits them in front of the entrance ... open its doors again for the first time since the start of the war. And yet normality is still a long way off.
Interesting Engineering20d
A brief history of drones: from pilotless balloons to roaming killers
The concept of drones may well date back to 1849 when Austria attacked Venice using unmanned balloons ... War. This war saw the first widespread deployment and use of drones as dedicated reconnais ...
PBS21d
Ugandan special forces deploy to South Sudan to protect government as civil war fears grow
Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...
The Financial Times21d
US and Ukraine hold talks on ending war with Russia
US and Ukrainian delegations held high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that Kyiv hopes can repair its fraught relationship with Washington and restart American weapons delivery and ...
Newsweek21d
Syria's Civil War Takes Another Deadly, Dramatic Turn
Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...
Associated Press21d
Uganda deploys special forces to South Sudan to protect the government as fears of civil war grow
Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ...
ABC News21d
Ukraine bombards Russia with largest drone barrage of war, Moscow says
Trump has framed Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main impediment to peace, falsely blaming Ukraine for starting the war, seeking to undermine Zelenskyy's legitimacy and publicly ...
Al Jazeera English22d
Uganda deploys troops in South Sudan as civil war fears grow
The pair signed a peace deal to bring a five-year civil war to an end in 2018. Kiir’s government detained two ministers and several senior military officials allied with Machar last week.
The Daily Telegraph22d
The extraordinary civil war engulfing one of Britain’s greatest cathedrals
The extraordinary civil war engulfing one of Britain’s greatest cathedrals A rebellion has broken out among Winchester Cathedral’s congregation, but a new review is unlikely to allay fears of ...
PBS22d
Syria’s worst violence in months reopens wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.
Sky22d
Donald Trump says Ukraine 'may not survive' war against Russia even if US support continues
Donald Trump suggested in an interview with Fox News that Ukraine's resistance against Russia's land, air and sea invasion may fail even if the US were to continue supporting Kyiv. It comes after ...