the debt owed by so many to those few thousand men who served on the convoys is immense. The bond forged through their courage and sacrifice with Russia endures to this day. Every year members of ...

Looking back now, Jack Patterson says the German U-boats which tried to sink the Arctic Convoys were just "the enemy" and it was "all part of war". The 95-year-old, from Thornhill near Dumfries ...

In Syria, a humiliating retreat for the Russian army: a convoy of about 100 vehicles left ... They are its only foothold in the Mediterranean and serve as a rear base for Russian operations ...