Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost entirely to serve the army ...

NATO is tracking a Russian military convoy that left Syria and is heading towards Gibraltar. Analysts from the Institute for ...

Russia has stepped up its military withdrawal from Syria, removing vehicles and containers from its key Tartous port on the ...

The Sparta and Sparta II, cargo ships owned by the Russian Defence Ministry's sanctioned logistics company Oboronlogistics, ...

Were you taught about the Spartans in school history? Sparta was a small Greek state in 500BCE, situated in the south of ...

More than 250 National Guard service members from Southern Illinois are set to deploy this weekend in support of Operation Spartan Shield, a U.S. Central Command operation in the Middle ...

Satellite imagery indicates the withdrawal of Russian military assets from Tartus, Syria, with cargo ships seen loading ...

The Russian cargo ships Sparta and Sparta II have begun transporting military equipment out of the Syrian port of Tartus, ...

The Sparta II, a Russian cargo ship under U.S. sanctions, had been drifting near Tartus since Jan. 5 after leaving Baltiysk in Kaliningrad Oblast on Dec. 11.

The order reinstates a policy from Trump's first term that prohibited trans people from enlisting and barred those already in ...