Follow this timeline to chart the key events and figures ... Before Pearl Harbor, the US military had been totally unprepared for a world war.

After Israel’s refusal to withdraw its security forces from the mosque compound, Hamas launches a sustained rocket barrage ...

By war’s end the AEF would number more than one million. No one could have foreseen the savagery unleashed by the world’s first industrialized war, where the efficiency of modern killing ...

Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an ...

Why did World War One start? What were the causes of World War One and how did the war develop? Find out in our guide. What role did the British Empire play in the war? What role did the British ...