Secret Wars Uncovered

The annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 was the biggest in Europe since WWII - but how did they execute it? And what has happened since?

In March 2019, reports arise of UK Special Boat Service troops killed in Yemen. But they shouldn't be there - so what role did they play in the Yemeni...

In October 1993, an elite battle unit of the US army began a fairly straight-forward mission in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. But within minutes, it de...

On 3 March 1992, Bosnia & Herzegovina gained its independence from Yugoslavia, leading to a complex war fuelled by ethnic tensions fought on many fron...

As it escalates, look at the complex history behind the India-Pakistan border conflict in Kashmir, from the horrors of Partition all the way to rising...

The American involvement in Laos in the 1950s was long kept under wraps - but the story of their efforts to remove the communists, led by the CIA, is...

In the 1980s, El Salvador and Nicaragua fought vicious civil wars - and spearheading the fight against communism, the US engaged. But how did it keep...

It is a deadly war in the desert, and one we know barely anything about. In the northern Malian town of Timbuktu, formerly a rich city, a war has been...

The military coup is an age-old method to topple governments and take control by force. Go behind the scenes of some of the most dramatic in recent hi...

Through a dissection of some of its deadly skirmishes and the parties involved, see the story behind the Gaza-Israel conflict and the devastating impa...