Donald H. Harrison

KABUL, Afghanistan — Hundreds of Taliban militants stormed a provincial capital in southern Afghanistan on Thursday and were fighting on multiple fronts with government forces, officials said. Afghan officials deployed reinforcements to Tarin Kot, in Uruzgan province, and Afghan and U.S.-led NATO warplanes were carrying out airstrikes in an attempt to deter the latest Taliban

President François Hollande delivered a key speech in Paris on Thursday in which he rejected the idea that the state should sacrifice civil liberties in the fight against terror and emphasised that French secularism is not incompatible with religion. “The French Constitution is not a flexible text with ellipses or parentheses,” Hollande said in his

Eli Brauner rarely makes it to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. When he does, it’s a painful experience for him. His ancestors built a synagogue here in the late 16th century, believed to be the country’s oldest partially preserved synagogue. After the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, they burned the Golden Rose

In 2017, Canada’s last destroyer, HMCS Athabaskan, will be retired, forcing the Royal Canadian Navy to lean on the U.S. to protect its ships from air attack. Last year, the vessel, flagship of the Atlantic fleet, twice broke down while at sea. Meanwhile, even Canada’s newly renovated submarines won’t last more than a few years