World war i

IDF confirms Gaza Commonwealth war cemetery damaged in operation to destroy Hamas terror tunnels

The IDF's operation to dismantle Hamas tunnels in Gaza has damaged a Commonwealth military cemetery, raising concerns about the preservation of war graves and the handling of sensitive sites.

Buildings lie in ruins amidst the rubble in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 8, 2025.
THE GRAVE of Pvt. Sam Greyman in the British military cemetery in Jerusalem. Pvt. Greyman was shot by a Turkish sniper as he tried to protect the British camp near Umm esh Shert Ford on September 8, 1918, at 27 years old.

'Post' writer rediscovers grave of fallen British World War I hero in Jerusalem

Members of the Australian Lighthorse Association watch over an Anzac Day dawn service at Bogan Gate in western New South Wales. Members of the Australian Lighthorse Association watch over an Anzac Day dawn service in the western New South Wales town of Bogan Gate, located 400 km (249 miles) west of

Letters from the dead: Letter written by WWI soldiers found in bottle off Australian coast

US President Donald Trump in the Oval office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 30, 2025

How US President Donald Trump is boxing Israel, Hamas into a Gaza deal - analysis


UK's Diane Abbott spreads fake news on X about pro-Palestinian protests, shames Braverman

Diane Abbott used a 2016 photo to claim that counter-protesters, protesting against the pro-Palestinian marches on Armistice Day, were neo-Nazis.

 Labour Party's Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott reads her party's manifesto at its launch in Birmingham, Britain November 21, 2019

UK PM Sunak warns pro-Palestinian protests on Armistice Day 'provocative'

"They have already expressed that they have no intention to disrupt remembrance events," police said.

 Demonstrators protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in London, Britain, October 28, 2023

Fulfilling a century-old promise: A journey to San Vigilio in a soldier's memory

San Vigilio is as beautiful as my great-uncle described in his diary when he served as a doctor in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front.

 A view of San Vigilio village that Dr. Isaac Barasch loved so much

Good for more than a single reading

Helen Joyce uses her real-life family histories as the basis of her semi-history, semi-novel that traces the traumatic impact of 20th-century politics on a Jewish family.

 German troops entering Warsaw after surrender of city in 1939.

A Jewish producer sees his family history in an Oscar-nominated Netflix film

Daniel Dreifuss' film features the history of his family escaping the Nazis, after serving Germany in World War 1, and moving to Israel.

 Illustrative image of person holding professional movie clapper board

Family seeks recognition for ancestor forcibly recruited to Ottoman army, died in service

The Turkish army forced Moshe Efroni, one of the pioneers of the first aliyah, to enlist during the First World War, else he be deported with his family back to Russia.

 The surrender of Jerusalem, December 9, 1917.

Elderly French man inserts WWI-era bomb up rectum, causes evacuation - report

Strange objects being inserted into one's body for sexual purposes isn't anything doctors aren't used to, but an artillery shell is nonetheless something nobody saw coming

 World War I artillery shells (Illustrative).

Nazi-looted sheet music returned to modern heirs

Beethoven gave the sheet music to his secretary before it found its way to the wealthy Czechoslovakian Petschek family.

 Beethoven’s handwritten manuscript for the fourth movement of his String Quartet in B-flat Major

Are Israeli-Australian ties in danger? - opinion

Building on these foundations, today’s Israel-Australia partnership encompasses robust economic ties, as well as cooperation in vital matters of national security. Now it's in danger.

 MEMBERS OF the Australian Light Horse Association take part in a reenactment of the famous World War One cavalry charge known as the ‘Battle of Beersheba,’ as part of events marking its centenary, in Beersheba, 2017.

The immutable links between Israel and South Africa

While the current government policy might be a short-term view, events that have taken place tell a very different tale.

 1 Cape Corps during World War I