For Allied POWs during World War II, Monopoly® games came equipped with real-life "get out of jail free" cards. During World War II, the British secret service hatched a master plan to smuggle escape ...

Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...

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Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea was recognized internationally only by countries such as North Korea and Sudan. In Russia, it touched off a wave of patriotism, and “Krym nash!” — or “Crimea is ...

Far beyond ice, Greenland is a key piece in world geopolitics, combining mineral wealth and military presence in the United ...

Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

Nazis staying at Greenbrier during WWII were treated like aristocratic guests. They even threw a birthday party for Hitler ...

All normality induces and tolerates a certain type of extremism. Beyond a certain limit, either extremism is neutralized or ...

Throughout Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, repeated and escalating warnings of the potential for a wider war have ...

This term, though, despite deepening tensions with Europe, Trump hasn’t said much about leaving the alliance. His secretary ...

A ceasefire in Russia's 3-year-old war in Ukraine hinges on Moscow accepting the U.S. proposal of a 30-day pause in fighting ...