The largest death toll was in northern Gaza, where living conditions are especially dire, as at least 79 Palestinians were ...

Jake Larson, the World War II veteran and social media star known as “Papa Jake,” has died, his granddaughter posted on his ...

A New Zealand soldier’s journal, detailing the discovery of a scientific breakthrough in water sterilisation during World War I, has been gifted to the National Army Museum Te Mata Toa in Waiouru. A ...

In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by the contents that awaited them. They didn’t pluck Community Chest cards.

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous 1995 Chicago heat wave​, which took 739 lives. One of them was a World ...

Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels have signed a declaration of principles for a permanent ceasefire in ...

A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach on D-Day will receive an award the World ...

Eighty years after a U.S. airman went missing in World War II, his family has received a token to remember him by.

I N 1971 RICHARD NIXON, then America’s president, announced a “war on cancer”. Just two years earlier the Apollo programme ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

An erotic mosaic stolen from Pompeii by a Nazi captain during World War II was finally returned to the ancient site on ...