Day: January 12, 2026

Even at the British Empire’s peak there were limits to its military might. When Prime Minister Lord Palmerston threatened to dispatch an expedition to protect Denmark from Prussia in 1864, the latter’s “Iron Chancellor” Bismarck called his bluff and sneered he would send a few policemen to arrest it. The Royal Navy might have ruled the waves, but before World War I the volunteer British army was dwarfed by the vast conscript machines of the continental European powers.

Syria’s Interior Ministry said on Sunday that its security teams had dismantled explosive devices allegedly planted by the YPG/SDF inside civilian homes and along streets in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood of Aleppo.