Local leaders in San Mateo County joined the family of a fallen World War II veteran Wednesday for his funeral in San Bruno, concluding the final chapter of a mystery surrounding his fate that ...

At 2 a.m. in 1916, a TNT blast in New York Harbor registered as a 5.5 quake, shook Philadelphia, and changed the Statue of ...

Verdun is synonymous with 1916, but we are here for a different turning point - August 31, 1944, when the US 7th Armored ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France in 1916 is deeply embedded in Arab political consciousness as a symbol ...

The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark ...

Naval blockades are among the oldest weapons of war, using sea control to cut supplies and force an enemy’s surrender.

The death of 128 Americans in a German submarine attack horrified Americans but failed to push the United States into World ...

The question of why the U.S. government began a war with Iran is unsettled. The ostensible reasons, blocking Iran from developing nuclear weapons and ...

More than 1,000 Aboriginal Australians served in WWI – but unlike white soldiers, they weren’t feted as heroes. They responded with collective activism.

The Channel Island of Sark has marked the 81st anniversary of its liberation from German forces during World War Two with a ...

The St. Louis Street house became a gathering place for generations of one Edwardsville family.

The property at 1225 E Henry Clay St. was wiped off the National Register of Historic Places because the building on the site ...