AP reporters and photographers chronicled the Nazis' historic defeat 80 years ago this week. Allied forces brought World War ...

World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end ...

May 8 and November 11 are new national holidays for WWII and WWI victories that don't replace Veterans Day or close ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to host heads of states for festivities Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the ...

New polling shows how people in different nations view the war’s end — and the chances of a new war.

Across Europe, in forests, fields and beneath old farmland, the remains of German soldiers are still being found, exhumed and ...

A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most important battles, was supposed to be used ...

In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school ...

From sniffing out mines to delivering vital messages under fire, dogs played a critical role in World War II—and some paid ...

On May 3, 1945, one of the greatest and most silenced maritime tragedies of the 20th century unfolded in the Bay of Lübeck in ...

A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 years after World War II ...

President Trump announced plans to officially designate May 8, the date when the Germans signed the articles of surrender to ...