Russia has canceled this year's Victory Day parade in the occupied Crimean port city of Sevastopol, Russian state-controlled ...

At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its ...

Following Russian invasions in Romania and Turkey in 1853, Great Britain and France entered the war in 1854 primarily out of strategic interest in defending the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits ...

For nearly two years in Russian captivity, Leniye Umerova clung to a single hope: that one day, she would return home — to ...

An officer being poured a drink at an army camp in Russia, during the Crimean War. Although the proximate cause of the Crimean War in the mid-19th century was a dispute between Russia and the ...

An officer being poured a drink at an army camp in Russia, during the Crimean War. (Roger Fenton/Getty Images | Hulton Archive) Although the proximate cause of the Crimean War in the mid-19th ...