Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. soldiers examine an Iraqi tank destroyed in February 1991. (Eric Bouvet, Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images) Mark T. Gerges commanded ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 became the largest naval battle in history. Japanese forces attempted a complex plan to trap and destroy the U.S. invasion fleet in the Philippines. Instead, the ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest and most decisive naval battle ever fought, involving hundreds of ships and aircraft across multiple theaters of combat. In October 1944, the Imperial Japanese ...

Nearly a week into the US-Israeli war with Iran and the skies above the Gulf remain streaked with the crisscrossing contrails of modern air defence. Just after midday on Saturday, deep concussive ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Israel and the United States may have launched the war on Iran. But it is the Gulf Arab states that have borne the brunt of Tehran’s response. Since February 28, the Islamic Republic has rained down ...

Since the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, over a week ago, more than one thousand Iranians have reportedly been killed, and Iran has responded by attacking various Gulf states—such as ...