Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios As the nation remembers D-Day on Friday's 81st anniversary, a dwindling number of World War II veterans remain with us. There were about 66,100 living WWII vets nationwide as of ...

It's hard for Ken Hackett to think of the greatest challenge he experienced during his many years of service with Catholic Relief Services, including 18 as its president. There was t ...

Less than 1% of the 16.4 million soldiers who fought in World War II are alive today, according to the World War II Museum.

If you ask the sharp-witted Vera Scholtis, 101, what is her secret to a long life, you might get several answers. She eats ...

More than 60 United Nations offices, agencies and operations have been ordered to submit proposals by mid-June to cut 20% of ...

In November of 1995, Dayton played host to the warring Balkan factions and by the time all the parties left the negotiations at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, a peace proposal – brokered by Richard ...

A new aid system in Gaza has opened its first distribution hubs in the territory. That's according to a U.S.-backed group that is taking over handling of supplies.

He has previously overseen the My Turn, Fact Check and News teams, and was a Senior Reporter before ... since the Allied victory in Europe in World War II, and said the U.S. should do more to ...

An international panel led by Swiss Professor Jean-Francois Bergier on Friday publishes its report on Swiss refugee policy during World War II. The report is likely to criticise Switzerland for ...

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing departed for Russia ... even as China has become a more active player in the country’s civil war, particularly in Shan State, abutting the Chinese border.

The thanksgiving service in the Abbey began with a two-minute silence, which was also observed across the UK, to remember Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender at the end of World War II ...

Eighty years on, few people are alive who remember World War II. Anne Frank would have turned ... restrictive earlier policies toward Jewish refugees. And Hiroshima warned against the potential ...