The Second World War ended eight decades ago this summer. But its specter looms large today. The war ended empires, upended ...

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates.

August 15 stands as a day marked by transformative moments that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of the ...

TAIPEI: Aggression only leads to defeat and as authoritarianism once again gathers strength, it is important that freedom and ...

Kilroy, the bald guy with the long nose hanging over a wall, may be the world’s first viral meme. While it didn’t originate ...

In just 30 seconds, we use Google Earth to visualize the entire course of World War II. From the initial invasions to the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday pledged that Japan will never again take the path to war, expressing ...

Tommy Anderson of Dover, who helped the Allies win World War II as a soldier in the "ghost army," died Aug. 1 at age 102.

Cam Pelletier was a 23-year-old serving in the Navy in the South Pacific in August 1945 when President Harry Truman announced ...

Aug. 14 is National Navajo Code Talker Day, honoring the over 400 Code Talkers who served with U.S. Marines in the Pacific ...

Top collectors on the island have amassed hundreds of thousands of artifacts — and there are still more being found.

Count Folke Bernadotte, the nephew of Sweden's King Gustav V and a colleague of Herman Allen, helped arrange a ceremony for ...