Mexico's Cristero War lasted three years, claimed 200,000 lives and forced Catholics to practice their faith in hiding.

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Janet Flanner, a struggling novelist with an unconventional lifestyle, was one of countless Americans living in 1920s Paris, ...

Ukraine estimates that 200,000 of its soldiers are absent without official leave (AWOL), meaning they have left their positions without permission to do so, the country’s new Defense Minister Mykhailo ...

Margraten, Netherlands — Ever since a U.S. military cemetery in the southern Netherlands removed two displays recognizing Black troops who helped liberate Europe from the Nazis, visitors have filled ...

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

EUROPE (Island News) -- The Purple Heart is the oldest military decoration in the United States, established by George Washington in 1782. It tells a story about how a segregated battalion, made up of ...

One of two Iowa National Guard soldiers killed in an "ISIS attack" in Syria has been identified. Major General Stephen Osborn said five soldiers were attacked by a "lone ISIS gunman" on Saturday, Dec.

President Donald Trump warned Saturday that there will be "very serious retaliation" after a lone Islamic State gunman in Syria killed two U.S. Army soldiers and a U.S. interpreter in an ambush attack ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem shared a video on Thursday that it says shows Israeli soldiers executing two Palestinian men who had surrendered during a raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied ...