Daniel Ellsberg, a legendary American whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 that laid bare US deceit and lies about the Vietnam War, died on Friday. He was 92.

A South Korean court has ordered Seoul to compensate a Vietnamese war victim, in a move that marks the first legal acknowledgement of the South's liability for atrocities the country's troops committed in the war.

The US military sector is struggling to recruit sufficient personnel as the nation's youth are losing interest in joining the military. Consequently, the armed forces are experiencing large shortfalls in enlistment for various posts.

Syria strongly condemns the West’s smear campaign against Russia amid the Ukraine conflict.

The stark parallels between the dramatic turn of events in the besieged Afghan capital last week and what unfolded in the Vietnamese city Saigon in 1975 has sparked intense buzz.

Former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned the Pentagon Papers.

A good deal of the earnings accrued from US wars goes straight into election campaigns, which in other countries would be considered bribery, but in the United States is relabeled as campaign donations.