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 ...

A war to end all wars' The First World War was the first truly global conflict – the battle raged not just in the trenches of the Western Front but in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

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