In the aftermath of Stalingrad, German forces in southern Russia were close to collapse. Hitler ordered his troops to hold ...

During World War II in 1943, small American PT boats challenged Japan’s deadly control of night warfare in the Pacific.

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

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On Feb. 6, 2001, Ariel Sharon was elected prime minister of Israel.

Autocratic backfire can end in a leader’s ouster and a nation’s collective ruin, as it did in Fascist Italy; in a leader clinging to power over a weakened state, as is happening with Mr. Putin’s ...

Tributes have been paid to a Czech man who was forced to leave his homeland as a young boy after the Second World War and ...

After more than two dozen middle grade and picture books, Sara Pennypacker has written her first work of historical fiction ...

Kambar Sarsenov, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and the internal affairs bodies of Kazakhstan, died at the age of 102 in Almaty, on February 4, the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of ...

These athletes may not have won medals, but they won the hearts of Canadians who cheered them on, watched them represent ...

On Feb. 2, 1848, the war between the United States and Mexico formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.