The first protests against Assad quickly spread across the country, and are met by security forces with a wave of arrests and shootings. Some protesters take up guns and military units defect as ...
Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...
INDEX: Radio and Writing The first radio broadcasts in Sub-Saharan Africa were made in the early 1920's. The earliest recording of a radio broadcast was made in 1923 in South Afri ...
As the conflict continues to unfold, rebel forces have entered the capital Damascus and reports say that President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country. Here is a timeline of significant events in ...
Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery (among the UK's most famous World War 2 generals) was nominated as ground commander because Eisenhower's forte was considered to be strategy rather than military ...
NASA postpones Moon missions. Artemis II, a crewed lunar flyby, shifts to April 2026. Artemis III, the lunar landing mission, targets mid-2027. Heat shield concerns and life support system ...