This is the last surviving remnant of the capital’s “Iron Curtain Row”. Before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the communist dominoes began to tumble, the north side of Conduit Street was punctuated ...

Squandering hard-earned goodwill by dismantling USAID programs throws us back into a world remembered from my East German ...

From Kirkenes in the Barents Sea to Rzeszów in southeast Poland, an iron curtain should descend across the continent.

Iran is sealing its border with Pakistan by constructing a massive 4-meter-high wall, aiming to end rampant fuel and drug ...

Sofia House, as it is named, is the home of Balkan Holidays Ltd. This is the last surviving remnant of the capital’s “Iron Curtain Row”. Before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the communist ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published Aug. 26, 2020. It was updated May 9, 2025, with details of the failed mission Kosmos-482. The Pioneer and Voyager probes the United States sent ...