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After Iran’s Parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, Beijing’s foreign-affairs spokesperson stressed—in what looked ...

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Illinois was a top-10 oil producing state from 1941 to 1945, producing 470 million barrels of oil, or 6% of overall U.S. production.

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Private Ken Ward-Harvey was lucky to survive his first encounter with the enemy at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942.

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Iran is out, Russia lost a junior partner, and Europe is increasing its military, defense and security spending at levels not seen in 80 years.The post The fractured axis of ...

While the Haganah itself operated before the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the origins of the IDF can be traced back more ...