Exactly 339 days after the U.S. declaration of war on Germany, U.S. and German land troops met in battle for the first time in World War II. The place was the oak groves and citrus valleys of Tunisia, ...

In Tunisia, Axis and Allied troops approached the climactic battle for North Africa. The news last week was fragmentary. Virtually all that General Dwight Eisenhower’s headquarters revealed was that ...

The WW1 battle for control over Central Africa and access to the region’s vast natural resources pitted Germany’s Kaiserliche Marine against Britain’s Royal Navy in one of the war’s most unusual ...

Flowers are laid at the statue of Russian mercenaries as a tribute to the late Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in Bangui, Central African Republic, on March 5, 2024. (Sam Mednick/AP) BANGUI, Central ...

The Battle of Kasserine Pass in February 1943 was the first significant engagement between German and U.S. forces in World War II. The fight delivered a harsh reality check to U.S. military leaders.