From the Trojan siege that spawned Homer’s Iliad to the Luftwaffe bombing that inspired Picasso’s Guernica, war has long served as a midwife for art. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 ...

Sept. 24 -- Like many international terrorists, the Abu Sayyaf group has its origins in the 1979-89 jihad or "holy war" to expel the Soviets from Afghanistan. Influenced by Wahabism, an ...

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