British soldiers read a map in the trenches of the Western Front during World War One. The trenches were dug out of the mud of the battlefields and lined with wood and barbed wire. Watch this ...

The pack or two a soldier might carry in his pocket would be burned up during “the many lazy days devoted to sailing across ...

and an extensive network of trenches stretched from the North Sea coast to the Swiss border. An arms race led to the first mass use of poison gas, air warfare, and tanks. On the western front ...

A new gravestone has been erected for a World War One soldier who died as a result of the after effects of a gas attack and ...

A unique part of Yorkshire's World War One heritage in Belgium has become the focus of a new fundraising campaign. The Yorkshire Trench, near Ypres, was built and occupied in 1915 by soldiers from ...

Old Soviet tanks have been borrowed from museums to help train Ukrainian troops on what a commander of the EU training mission for Kyiv says are booby-trap tactics used by Russian soldiers on the ...

At a critical battlefield in eastern Ukraine, advanced technology is shaping battles that resemble the wars of older eras. When drones are watching, assaults become violent sprints.

There are also sprawling trenches. They run deep along the front lines and have been seen in photos from the war, such as around Bakhmut, which saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.