Professor Tarek Masoud joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Middle East. What's the origin of the ...

Dive into a detailed alternate history exploring what might have happened if the Soviet Union had joined the Axis Powers ...

By taking a T-55 main battle tank (MBT) and equipping it with a MiG-15 jet engine—yes, you read that right—the Soviet Army’s engineers envisioned making a “gasdynamic trawler,” or a ...

Why Soviet pilots were buried in Alaska during World War II The backstory: During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were allies against Nazi Germany.

Trump’s Soviet slip revives concerns about his mental acuity The president's mental state is in the spotlight once again ...

Before 1939, Rhode Island-sized Transnistria was home to around 300,000 Jews. But after Nazi troops occupied the area in July 1941, they began carrying out mass executions — not only of local Jews ...

Sergey Lavrov’s Alaska outfit hints at Soviet nostalgia Lavrov will be part of the Kremlin’s delegation when Putin and Trump meet Friday.

Trump Uses Soviet-Era Name for Russian City The president referred to St. Petersburg as “Leningrad”—a name that hasn’t been used since 1991—in a social media post.

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The African Union has joined a campaign urging global institutions to adopt a map of Africa that more accurately reflects the continent’s size. The Mercator map, widely used since 1599, shows a ...

Lavrov touched down in Anchorage wearing a white “CCCP” sweater – the Soviet Union’s old insignia, the cyrillic spelling of USSR – ahead of peace talks.

Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade have been together for over 15 years. They met two years before they started dating, in 2007, but Union had just gone through a divorce from NFL star Chris Howard ...