The Latest Breaking News from World War II

The story of Varian Fry, the Emergency Rescue Committee (later to become today's International Rescue Committee) and its efforts to spirit refugee artists and intellectuals out of Vichy France in the early years of World War II has become a historical, ahistorical, quasi-historical romantic melodrama, "Transatlantic." Written by Anna Winger…

Transatlantic cast — a who's who guide to the World War II drama.

The detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia on espionage charges marks an unusual throwback to the old Soviet tactics for handling foreign correspondents.

Len Gibson, from Sunderland, died at the age of 101 - just days before the launch of a book detailing his remarkable life and time as a Japanese prisoner of war on the notorious Burma Railway and Bridge over the River Kwai

Europe’s biggest armed conflict since World War II is poised to enter a new phase in the coming weeks

The dismal track record of U.S. military interventions.

In the wake of the recent Nashville primary school shooting in the US, the debate over gun violence has resurfaced. Today's focus takes us to Japan, a country known for its low murder rates. Although gun ownership is not uncommon in Japan, it is tightly regulated. Japan's anti-gun culture has…

The out-building is thought to have been a female toilet block used by the auxiliary air force during the Second World War. Plans have been drawn up which would see it make way for a family home

Yonaguni is the westernmost in a series of small Japanese islands, known as Yaeyama, that are gradually being transformed into a key line of defense as Japan embarks on its biggest military buildup since World War II.

TINIAN, Northern Mariana Islands: The tiny island of Tinian was the launch point for U.S. planes carrying atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now a new runway is being carved from the jungle, just south of World War II ruins.

Italy's premier has marked the anniversary of one of the worst World War II-era massacres in German-occupied Italy