The Belgian paratroopers had gone back home to a triumphant welcome, but they had probably left too soon. Behind them, the Congo kept sliding back into Stone Age savagery. A pair of rescue columns ...

Just across the Congo River from Leopoldville sits Brazzaville ... African police opened fire, and Belgian paratroopers manned key points about the European part of the city.

The Belgian Congo transformed into the independent Republic ... A joint U.S.-Belgian mission called Dragon Rouge would drop in paratroopers, grab the prisoners, and fly out. Simultaneously ...

"Chocolate, lace and guns,” are the items people most associate with Belgium. At one time, Belgium was a major economic manufacturing and export country, but long gone are the days in which ...

News reports and social media posts have been circulating online claiming that Belgium has deployed troops to the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to fight against rebels in the ...

the leftist who was Congo’s first premier. She was among some 250 white hostages herded into the square as American planes began dropping Belgian paratroopers and Congolese government troops ...

Piloting one of 15 Lockheed C-130s, he would drop into the former Belgian Congo and successfully free ... carried U.S. troops and 600 Belgian paratroopers. But as Secord reached 4,000 feet ...

The restitution of the relic took place after Belgium’s King Philippe earlier this month expressed his “deepest regrets” for his nation’s abuses in its African former colony, Congo ...

Barbara Moens is a trade reporter at POLITICO Europe. KINSHASA — The Belgian royals’ visit to Congo, which ended earlier this week, was an attempt to grapple with Belgium’s grisly colonial past. But ...

The restitution of the relic took place after Belgium’s King Philippe earlier this month expressed his “deepest regrets” for his nation’s abuses in its African former colony, Congo ...