War

Dictators are boring, as the US journalist Tucker Carlson belatedly discovered when he met Vladimir Putin

This extract from Martin Sixsmith’s new book explores how Putinism emerged from the country’s brutal history

Populists in Europe and the US are running on a platform of defunding Zelensky. That brings a Russian victory closer than ever

The Israeli prime minister’s failed, immoral policies are a deadly own goal – and they are pure neopopulism

2023 has been a tumultuous year around the world, filled with conflict, controversy and historic firsts, alongside hopes and fears for the future

Images by the photographer in the city of Khan Yunis underline the suffering of ordinary Gazans

As the death toll continues to mount, the Gaza war has the potential to destabilise the region – and the world

The 1973 Arab-Israeli war divided Europe and the US, nearly led to a third world war and permanently scarred the Israeli psyche

Beloved of celebrities, the SS Normandie was the fastest, most beautiful ocean-going liner of them all – yet it was doomed from the start

The 1943 Battle of Kursk was the largest tank battle in history and left a landscape of apocalyptic destruction. It still holds lessons for the war in Ukraine

When the Nazis occupied the Channel Islands, they built a network of forced labour camps. What happened there is still a matter of controversy – and pain

In his rush to participate in geopolitics, has the president forgotten about strife-torn France itself?

Ivor Prickett’s photographs capture not just the horror of conflict but also the tender moments, the tedium and the weary suffering

As Russian rockets rained down on Ukraine, the contest’s political genie was finally let out of the bottle

The window of opportunity for victory against Russia is open. If Zelensky does not succeed, pressure for a deal will grow

Failing in Ukraine and undermined by his allies: make no mistake, this is the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin

The German-born artist created his melancholy and nightmarish Europe After the Rain II during the most frightening and uncertain period of his own life

The great European author, who died earlier this month, didn’t leave Croatia – her country left her

Mines laid by the Russian invaders are responsible for a quarter of military casualties in Ukraine

Remembering the brave resistance of Germany’s White Rose movement and their fight for free expression

Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb war criminal, is dying. For one of the families he ripped apart, his fate means nothing