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 ...

In this episode, we explore how Yugoslavia managed to resist and ultimately expel Axis forces during World War II largely ...

Gophers men's basketball coach Niko Medved gets daily perspective when thinking of his father Miro's journey to the U.S. from former Yugoslavia.

Following are some key facts about the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. * The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was established by Resolution 827 ...

This article examines how socialist Slovenia produced, obscured, recognized, and partially mitigated peasant poverty. While the official ideology ...

Among archives, former concentration camps, and unexpected discoveries, a descendant of a Jewish family exterminated during ...

These are the workers who died building Australia’s greatest engineering project. One man is ensuring they are remembered.

The report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates that Russia has suffered the largest troop deaths ...

About 1.2 million Russian troops have been killed, wounded or are missing since its invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago, a rate of casualties for a major military power not seen since World War ...

A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the "Snow Stadium" -- on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for ...

Benevolent dictatorship is a sugar rush offering fleeting highs but guarantees a bitter crash. The appeal is understandable.