Austria-Hungary was a powerful empire on paper, but beneath the surface it was a fragile union of rival nations held together by compromise and fear. Ethnic nationalism steadily undermined loyalty to ...

The southeastern Polish city of Przemyśl, with its elegant 19th century Habsburg-era train station, remains one of the principal gateways to war-torn Ukraine. I pass through it regularly on my way to ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - The far-right favourites to win Austria's next election have forged an alliance with Hungarian leader Viktor Orban that could deepen defiance of Brussels and threaten already ...

The Steyr M1912 was never meant to be an automatic weapon. Yet during World War I, battlefield pressure led Austria-Hungary to convert it into one. This video explains how the M1912/16 became one of ...