Banners and candles are displayed during a ceremony commemorating the Biafran War
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Fifty years after the Biafran war, the massacre in Asaba in the south-south region of Nigeria is still a highly sensitive issue.
President Donald Trump with members of the armed forces.
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If President Donald Trump were to start a conflict, many Americans would likely view as it a misguided effort. What would that mean for the troops?
The U.S. has thousands of nuclear weapons stockpiled.
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The US could only safely use a fraction of its nuclear stockpile without harming Americans through an environmental event called ‘nuclear autumn.’
A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask flashing a victory sign in Beirut in November 2019.
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Wars don’t produce winners and losers – they never really did.
Soldiers in Anzac Cove. The war had driven Australians apart in the demands it made upon the people.
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The politics of the war continue to resonate in our discussions of national identity and purpose.
Gleichen sacrificed her own well-being to help save the lives of injured soldiers on the Italian Front.
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The landscape artist bravely left her aristocratic life behind to help save lives on the Italian front.
Cyber attacks aren’t warfare.
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Treating non-violent cyber attacks as warfare could lead to unnecessary escalation.
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Following announcements by France and the US, NATO is expected to start using space weapons.
Shortlived alliance.
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As US national security advisor, John Bolton was too much of a warmonger for Donald Trump.
Red Cross forensic specialist Stephen Fonseca, right, searches for bodies in a field of ruined maize in Magaru, Mozambique, after Cyclone Idai, April 4, 2019.
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Meet the unsung aid workers who put their lives on the line during war and natural disaster to make sure the dead are treated with respect – and that their grieving families get closure.
Travis Fimmel and Jay Kiriona in Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019).
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A new Australian film tells the story of one of the most iconic battles of the Vietnam war - but the film repeats disputed facts and interpretations.
It was defoliants, seen here during Operation Ranch Hand in the Vietnam War, that prompted action to protect the environment during conflicts.
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A group of scientists want a new Geneva Convention to safeguard the environment during wars and conflicts. We already have such rules, but they’re inadequate, inconsistent and unclear.
China retaliated with tariffs on U.S. imports after Trump imposed tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports.
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The US-China trade war shows no signs of slowing down. Here’s what readers need to know.
It’s a linguistic battlefield out there.
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Each spin of the news cycle hits us with another ‘bombshell,’ while everything from free speech to race has been ‘weaponized.’ What’s the effect of being relentlessly exposed to metaphors of war?
People living in Vietnam today may still feel the effects of the war.
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The Vietnam War ended in 1975. But it’s still harming the health of Vietnamese people born after the conflict ended.
President Harry S Truman established the initial version of the National Intelligence Council.
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The National Intelligence Council works inside government but is little understood outside. Yet it has helped respond to almost all the major foreign policy challenges of the last 40 years.
US Air Force fighters during the 1991 Gulf War.
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If the US military were a country, its carbon emissions would rank between that of Peru and Portugal.
Iranian officials show off the U.S. drone they shot out of the sky.
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Trump announced ‘hard-hitting’ new sanctions on Iran in response to the attack on a US drone. A peace studies scholar explains why sanctions rarely work.
Smoke billows from the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor (2017). Impossible living conditions force people to migrate. It is time to collect a “destruction tax” on arms transactions ?
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Wars play a central role in increasing numbers of refugees worldwide. Is it time to think about a “destruction tax”?
The participants in the West Balkans conference pose for the group photo at the chancellery in Berlin on April 29, 2019.
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What can be the road ahead for Kosovo and Serbia under the EU patronage?