The Latest Breaking News from World War II

Someone has to play the bad guy.

On November 8, 1942, the Western Allies launched Operation Torch, landing in Vichy-controlled Morocco and Algeria to open up a second front in World War II. Torch was a paradoxical operation: The Allies won in just over a week, but losses were relatively high as the operation provided harsh lessons…

Professors Miller and Tucker miss the mark, while Saul Cornell disdains accuracy

The POW Requiem, featuring 24 movements, was performed over the weekend for the first time, in honour of Australia's thousands of World War II prisoners.

Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers chanted and sang in praise of Benito Mussolini as they marched to the slain Italian dictator’s crypt Sunday, 100 years after Mussolini entered Rome and completed a bloodless coup that gave rise to two decades of fascist rule

Years investigating Holocaust atrocities and ISIL war crimes are helping researchers uncover Russian abuses in Ukraine.

When a group of women from all walks of life were asked to play in the inaugural Test cricket series against England in the summer of 1934, they brought hope of mending the fractured sporting relationship.

The refugee crisis is exacerbating Ukraine’s irreversible demographic decline, which began in the Soviet era.

President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the war in Ukraine was part of Russia's wider struggle against Western domination, and warned that the world is probably entering the "most dangerous" decade since the end of World War II. The Russian leader showed no sign of backpedaling on the eight-month-old invasion…