France on Thursday remembers the 1944 Allied landings in Provence, an event overshadowed by the Normandy landings two months earlier, but still key to the World War II endgame in Europe. Six ...

More than 400 civilians rendered jobless by the departure of French troops from Chad are asking the government to hire them and provide the job benefits they had when they worked for the French.

Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French ...

In the dense tropical jungles and humid archipelagos of the Pacific, the US Army is readying its soldiers for a potential high-end conflict by teaching them to own the night and take advantage of ...

In January 1943, the Allies held a conference codenamed Symbol in a hotel in the French Moroccan city of ... an operation that depended on massing US troops on British shores.

Japan takes Guam and Wake Island in the central pacific. Japan invades Hong Kong; British forces surrender. In the Philippines: Japanese forces take Manila; American and Filipino troops withdraw ...