Proxy wars, a phenomenon where external pow­ers support opposing sides in a conflict in order to influence the outcome of the conflict and ad­vance their own strategic interests, have become a ...

The Filiki Eteria, or the Society of Friends was founded on September 14, 1814, and played a crucial role in the Greek War of Independence.

Following defeat in World War I, it was formally abolished in 1922. More than a dozen independent countries emerged from territories the Ottoman sultans once ruled.

A Russian knight hacks at a serpent depicting the leaders of Germany and the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires. A poster portraying the “Second Patriotic War” as World War I was known in ...