That divide was never wider than during the Wars of Independence in the 13th and 14th centuries when a chance event brought an era of relative friendship to an end in violent conflict. The crisis ...

King Edward I of England was at war with France. He was furious when John Balliol, King of Scotland made peace with the French. The English king invaded Scotland to make King John pay for standing ...

Our troops shouldn’t go off and try and fight a war of independence for another nation. Only the Afghanis can win Afghanistan’s independence from the Taliban. ~Mitt Romney I understand the ...

When Michael Collins ordered the mass assassination of British intelligence agents, it was the "gamble of all gambles" that became the tipping point in the War of Independence ...

Quezon was elected president of the new commonwealth. World War II interrupted the transition to independence. Within minutes of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 ...

Four years of protracted negotiations and bitter warfare passed between the declaration of Indonesian independence on 17 August ... their return to the archipelago as a mission to restore 'order and ...

Catholic and Protestant church leaders attended the ceremony as well as politicians from both sides of the border The 100th anniversary of the truce in the Irish War of Independence has been ...

After 1,000 days of war, a makeshift memorial has grown in the heart of Kyiv with thousands of blue-and-yellow flags honoring ...