An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO allies.

The strategy calls for asserting U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere and 'cultivating resistance' in Europe.

An extended view, from 1 AD to 2000 AD. If you click it will get bigger and easier to read. Euratlas The most recent millennium of European political history was wrought with war and conquest. Borders shifted; empires rose and fell. In the video above we ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation of the Black Death in Europe.

A rich cultural legacy reinforces a commitment to solidarity. [ opinion ] In 1971, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi celebrated 2,500 years of Persian monarchy with an opulent party for hundreds of international luminaries featuring plates of roast peacock ...

It's taken some time, about a century in fact, but finally, thanks chiefly to editor and jazz historian Francesco Martinelli of Siena Jazz, the first comprehensive, pan-European history of jazz sees the light of day. And what stories they are too -complex ...