While South Africa has several memorials dedicated to white soldiers who died in the world wars, Black servicemen’s ...

A French field infamously known as the “mud camp” is still giving up World War I relics lost there more than a century ago, ...

On the eve of World War One, as German forces demanded safe passage through Belgium on their way to attack France, the Belgian king refused to stand aside. What came next was unimaginable.

World War One ended on 11 November 1918, when Germany surrendered to the allies. Delegates from 32 countries met in Versailles in June 1919 and signed a peace settlement called the Treaty of ...

"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time" So remarked the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, as the European continent geared up for war ...

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.

The Balkan Wars (1912-1913) proved that the Megali Idea—the nationalist concept and goal to expand the Greek state to include ...

On Dec. 3, 1917, they decided to initiate separate peace negotiations with Germany to end Russia's involvement in WWI. On March 3, 1918, the Bolshevik government accepted a treaty with the Central ...