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World War I

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the Memorial And Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, January 17, 2025. (Aleksandra Szmigiel/Pool via AP)
February 24, 2026, 1:46 pm
UK premier visits Poland with family to trace wife’s Jewish roots
Victoria Starmer’s grandparents fled rising antisemitism before WWI; decades later, the family members who stayed were killed by the Nazis
By ToI Staff
A gardener tends to the lawn between the tombstones at the Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery -- commonly known as the British War Cemetery and in which are interred the remains of 3,217 Allied soldiers who died during World War I -- in Gaza City on September 28, 2022. (Mahmud HAMS / AFP)
February 5, 2026, 11:59 am
IDF said to have damaged Gaza cemetery containing graves of Allied troops from world wars
Guardian report shows destruction, earthworks at graveyard east of Gaza City; IDF says area was ‘an active combat zone,’ contained tunnels used by Hamas terrorists
By ToI Staff
Huda Kattan attends the Sephora x Huda Beauty – Pink vs Peach KSA at Sidra Arts on January 16, 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Cedric Ribeiro/Getty Images for Huda Beauty via JTA)
August 12, 2025, 4:50 am
‘A smear campaign against me’: Huda Beauty founder defends anti-Israel conspiracy rant
Huda Kattan faces calls to have brand removed from Sephora stores after she accused Israel of being behind World War I, World War II, 9/11 and Oct. 7
By Grace Gilson
A gardener waters the lawn between the tombstones at the Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery, commonly known as the British War Cemetery and in which are interred the remains of 3217 Allied soldiers who died during World War I, in Gaza City on September 28, 2022. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
August 17, 2024, 9:22 am
Hamas plotted to threaten UK in 2022 by ‘kidnapping’ bodies of WWI soldiers – report
British daily reveals terror group’s plan, uncovered by IDF during Khan Younis raid this year, to exhume troops, hold them to demand UK not move embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
A technician works to destroy the United States' chemical weapons stockpile at the US Army Pueblo Chemical Depot, June 8, 2023, in Pueblo, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
July 7, 2023, 8:23 am
US finally destroying the last of its declared chemical weapons stockpile
Officials believe initiative will encourage other countries to comply with 1997 international Chemical Weapons Convention – which Israel has signed but not ratified
By Andrew DeMillo, Thomas Peipert and DYLAN LOVAN
People wave Australian flags as they line the street to watch the Anzac Day parade in Sydney, April 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
April 25, 2023, 11:43 am
Australia, New Zealand honor their fallen soldiers on Anzac Day
Dawn services and veterans’ street marches take place across both countries on anniversary of Gallipoli landing; Canberra sounds alarm over China’s increasing threat in region
By Rod McGuirk
A movie billboard poster advertises the German film "All Quiet on The Western Front" (Im Westen nichts Neues) at the Kino International movie theatre in Berlin on September 27, 2022. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
September 29, 2022, 7:21 pm
Anti-war novel banned by Nazis gets Netflix revival told through German eyes
1929 book ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ depicts WWI from the perspective of a teenage German soldier; produced by German director, film due for streaming release in October
By Céline LE PRIOUX
Framed extracts of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine's (portrait) correspondence displayed at the Gallimard gallery during the exhibition titled 'Celine, recovered manuscripts' in Paris, May 3, 2022. (Christophe Archambault/AFP)
May 4, 2022, 11:37 am
Manuscript by famed pro-Nazi French author resurfaces after 78 years
Louis-Ferdinand Celine’s ‘Guerre’ to hit bookstores decades following his abandonment of personal papers as the Allies approached Paris during WWII
By Hugues HONORE
An explosive shell dating back to World War I uncovered at a building site in Ganei Tikva in central Israel, November 15, 2021. (Israel Police)
November 15, 2021, 8:18 pm
Unexploded World War I-era shell discovered at building site in central Israel
British munition said to have contained ‘active explosives’ detonated by police sappers in controlled explosion
By ToI Staff
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attends the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph in London, on November 11, 2018. (Alastair Grant/AP)
November 14, 2021, 7:48 pm
Queen Elizabeth sprains back, misses key remembrance event
British monarch, 95, said ‘disappointed’ that she is unable to participate in service to remember war dead; ceremony is one of the most important in queen’s calendar
By SYLVIA HUI
From left: Cedric Waters Hill, circa 1915,and Elias Henry Jones, circa 1915 (Jones, 'The Road to En-Dor,' 1919)
June 22, 2021, 11:14 pm
How a Ouija board sprung two British officers from a WWI Ottoman prison camp
In new book, ‘The Confidence Men,’ author Margalit Fox delves into spiritual trends and psychological mechanisms that enabled brilliant buddies to hoodwink Turkish captors
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Saudi police close a street leading to a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi city of Jeddah where a bomb struck a World War I commemoration attended by European diplomats on November 11, 2020 leaving several people wounded amid Muslim anger over French cartoons. (AFP)
November 12, 2020, 11:33 pm
Islamic State group claims attack at Saudi WWI ceremony
3 wounded in blast at international ceremony attended by representatives of several countries; terror group says French diplomats were targeted
By Sarah El Deeb
Saudi police close a street leading to a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi city of Jeddah where a bomb struck a World War I commemoration attended by European diplomats on November 11, 2020 leaving several people wounded amid Muslim anger over French cartoons. (AFP)
November 11, 2020, 4:39 pm
Foreign envoys attacked in bombing at Saudi cemetery during WWI memorial
French officials confirm blast, which targeted international ceremony attended by representatives of several countries; identity of victims unclear; suspect arrested
By Angela Charlton and Aya Batrawy
US President Donald Trump arrives to attend a commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day, 100 years after the end of the First World War at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, Sunday, November 11, 2018. (Benoit Tessier/Pool Photo via AP)
September 4, 2020, 6:13 am
Report: Trump disparaged American war dead as ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’
US president declined to visit military cemetery in France in 2018 because he feared rain would mess up his hair and dead soldiers were ‘losers’ anyway, officials say
By JAMES LaPORTA
Left: A photo of William 'Wolf' Fisher from the British Jewry Roll of Honour taken at the start of World War I when he was a private in the Middlesex Regiment (courtesy); a newspaper clipping from the Daily Express covering the exposed spy ring (National Archive).
July 14, 2020, 6:41 am
UK-Jewish spy’s pivotal role in French espionage ring revealed after 95 years
Wolf Fisher, a Polish-born UK intelligence operative, recruited two women, one of whom became his lover, to surveil French navy and air force installations — and then disappeared
By Marc Goldberg
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