The condition of the Palestinians has worsened recently as an aid agency of the United Nations suspended its operations following the death of two of its drivers.   The Israeli forces are still fighting heavily with the Hamas militants. The Red Cross has criticized Israel for causing  delay in the agency’s mission to help and save the casualties of the two-week old war. Reports stated that the death toll of the fightings has reached more than 700 and is still rising. While the Palestinian ... Read More

Above: The Allied battle plan Map Amidst growing tensions between the two Persian Gulf neighbors, Saddam Hussein concluded that USA and the rest of the world would not interfere to defend Kuwait. On 2nd August 1990 Iraq invaded and came to control Kuwait. Within days USA along with the UN demanded Iraq's immediate withdrawal. Few weeks later USA and member nations of UN deployed troops in Saudi Arabia. Under the aegis of the UN a worldwide coalition began to form. Above: An ... Read More

Above: Map of Kashmir Region It was a major war between India and Pakistan, which finally led to the Bangladesh Liberation War or the Pakistani Civil War. Exact dates are under dispute. The battle in western India from 3rd to 16th December 1971 is termed the Indo-Pakistani war by both India and Bangladesh. Within two weeks Pakistan suffered a humiliating defeat. Above: Picture of Sheik Mujibur Rahman LIBERARTION WAR OF BANGLADESH: The Bangladesh Liberation War was the main cause behind the Indo-Pakistani ... Read More

Above: Map of Pakistan during the Second Kashmir War The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, or Second Kashmir War, was the culmination of a series of hostilities that occurred between April 1965 and September 1965 between India and Pakistan. The war was the second one fought between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, the first having been fought in 1947. The war lasted for five weeks, resulted in thousands of casualties on both sides and it ended in a United Nations (UN) ordered ... Read More

Above: Map of Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904/05 a victorious Japan forced Russia to give up its policy of expansion towards the Far East. Thus Japan became the first Asian country to humble a European country. Above: Japanese combat canon deployed at Port Arthur The seeds of the war originated from competition between the two countries to dominate Korea and Manchuria. In 1898 China had been forced to grant to Russia a lease for the strategically important ... Read More

The UN Security Council, in the middle of 1948 called upon Israel and Arab states to sit down to talks. Israel forced Egypt to agree by driving its army to El Arish in the Sinai. Britain, recalling an Anglo-Egyptian offered to help Egypt but the latter did not want to undergo this humiliation and agreed to talks at Rhodes. Ralph Bunche of the UN organized the conference with the warning that anybody not cooperating would be blamed for the breakdown. Another reason ... Read More

Above: Injured Israeli Army on the side of the road during YOM KIPPUR WAR The most recent full-scale war in the history of the Middle East is the Yom Kippur War or October War, of 1973. It is so called because it started on the holy day of the Jews - the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. The two leaders of Israel and Egypt were Golda Meir and Anwar Saddat respectively. Above: Uncrewed Syrian Tanks left behind at an Israeli ... Read More

In America the idea took roots that she had the divine right to expand her borders from sea to sea - it was called 'manifest destiny'. This notion caused suffering to Mexico and Native Americans. Tension began to grow after Texas became a part of USA following the Texas War of Independence. Frontier disputes began to snowball into armed conflicts. President Polk took these as an excuse to grab large regions from Mexico. America wanted to march towards the Pacific and in so doing ... Read More

Above: Map of Mexico (click map to enlarge) The war on land and sea stretched from 1812 to 1815 along the border with Canada near the Chesapeake Bay region and also along the Mexican Gulf. It ended with a peace treaty being signed in Europe. Above: Map showing the location of Great Lakes The American Revolutionary War of 1783 was over but Britain did not withdraw her forces from the Great Lakes. This was a bone of contention. Neither was Britain willing ... Read More

Above: Map during the Civil War of Russia A division arose between the Bolsheviks or Communists and the Left Socialist Revolutionaries over the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in which Russia had made sizeable land concessions to Germany. The LSR left the coalition. There were two main groups opposed to Lenin. Above: Picture of the White Army The non-Bolshevik left was annoyed with Lenin for having dissolved the Constituent Assembly and the White Rightists had their own grievances to grudge. ... Read More