On Jan. 27, 1945, ten thousand Allied POWs stepped off from Stalag Luft III in Żagań as the Nazi regime began forcibly evacuating its ...

The end of the Franco-Prussian War ushered in a new age of optimism and prosperity across much of Europe, which would be ...

Meet Frenchman Jules Brunet, the real-life last samurai. Fighting alongside the Shogunate rebels who wanted to maintain ...

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

The postwar years brought big changes to Jefferson Parish. Learn all about them Feb. 1 as Charles Chamberlain III gives a ...

So, the average height of the soldiers in this corps was also 6 feet ... This topic of height also plagued Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1808–1873), or Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Rare is the true cult hit movie. Unknown actors, an original story, an independent feature with a low budget. How often does a movie like that truly break through? When it happens, it feels ...

The Cuban government said Wednesday that 13 soldiers had died after an explosion a week earlier in an arms depot in the country's east. Cuba's Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces said in a ...

Defectors in Seoul share sentiments about North Korean soldiers in Russia. SEOUL -- Over 12,000 North Korean troops are estimated to be fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The Al-Shabaab group in Somalia released a video of a purported Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) serviceman, who was allegedly captured during the El-Adde raid which left dozens of soldiers ...

Five Israeli female soldiers will be released from Gaza on Sunday, coinciding with the first day of a planned ceasefire - according to a report by KAN news, a senior US official announced ...