A week after the D-Day landings on Normandy, in a small French village, disaster struck the Allies. A lone commander of a ...

Discover a few interesting things you might not know about Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945—from royal princesses in conga lines to Stalin's demanding a second Nazi surrender.

European political and military leaders are ushering in 2026 with bellicose speeches that recall 1914, greeting the prospect of military conflict with Russia with a lack of trepidation amounting at ...

Fort de La Mauresque (Moor's Fort), north of Port-Vendres. Originally a French military position where a coastal battery was ...

Algeria’s parliament backed a bill demanding France apologize and pay reparations for its 130-year occupation of the North African country, likely escalating a simmering feud with Paris. Lawmakers on ...

France returned the remains of 24 Algerian resistance fighters in 2020 Algeria's parliament has unanimously passed a law declaring France's colonisation of the North African state a crime, and ...

How a Dutch couple sheltered Anne Frank’s family and preserved her account of life under Nazi occupation. Miep Gies (right) and her husband Jan return to the house where the Frank family hid. When ...

PARIS — The military recruitment center across from the Eiffel Tower, in the posh 7th district’s historic École Militaire, is filled with promotional posters for the armed forces. In the lobby, I met ...

The war in Ukraine has pushed defence issues to the top of the agenda in Germany, where the federal government has confirmed that a military call-up will return as early as next year. All young men ...

Swiss cruise line operator MSC Cruises signed a letter of intent with the shipyard for an order of between four and six ships, the government said, with a final contract to be drawn up over the next ...