Ukrainian soldiers are using drones to lead them through trenches, an Australian military trainer said. That's partly because of a fear of Russian booby traps, he told BI. Drones are playing an ...

Sailors Naval Construction Battalion 14 and Marines from 8th Engineer Support Battalion build out a trench designed to be reinforced against drones in Latvia. Picturing a sky full of drones over their ...

On Christmas 1914, thousands of WWI enemies briefly laid down their guns, meeting in No Man’s Land to sing carols, swap gifts and even play soccer.

Soldiers in Ukraine say that grenades are key for close-quarters trench fighting, and Western forces are paying attention.

Soldiers scramble through trenches under a haze of yellow smoke, machine gunfire booms across the fields, invisible drones buzz overhead and voices scream in Ukrainian "Watch out!" The scene could be ...

On a cold Christmas Eve in 1914, something extraordinary happened along the Western Front of World War I. The sound of ...

In December 1914, British and German soldiers fighting World War I unofficially stopped combat to celebrate Christmas. Known ...

NEAR SIVERSK, Ukraine—When artillery bombardments stop, the silence of muddy dugouts near the front lines here is soon replaced by another familiar sound of trench warfare: the squeak and scuttle of ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, battling German and British soldiers laid down their arms and sang Christmas carols together — a brief ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — Solanco High School took students out of the classroom and put them in the trenches for today’s unique lesson on WWI history. Instruction takes a deeper approach each year with ...

It’s difficult to imagine since the world’s history has been a series of conquests and defenses. But there was once a Christmas when ...

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