Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) Africa If you were a soldier on the front line, you would most likely be operating out of a trench. Trenches became valuable to WW1 armies because they were a ...

The Iran-Iraq War became one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern era, killing nearly two million and leaving both nations devastated. Sparked by Saddam Hussein’s invasion in 1980, the war dragged ...

This story was updated to note that state Sen. Scott Martin, R-Martic Township, secured the funding for the trench.

In the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the term sapper carries weight. For 250 years, sappers have served as elite combat ...

Then on April 22, 1915, old-fashioned warfare turned modern. In the late afternoon, a green cloud - poisonous chlorine gas - rose from the German trenches and moved slowly with the wind over the ...