After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the start of the Iran Hostage Crisis, Iran fought its neighbor Iraq for eight years.

The issue is very clear, as The Guardian(UK) reported on March 25: despite its scale, 85% of Britons today do not know the full extent of Britain’s involvement in the slave trade. Over three million ...

The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector with a painting looted ...

There's a long and contentious history of US interest in the Arctic island, but it seems to have entered a new phase under ...

As Greece counts 200 years from the War of independence and stands proud as a member of the EU, the mind reels to the ...

In March 1944, 76 officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp. In 1977, a key member of the escape team talked to the ...

Just under 10,000 Jewish children fled to Britain from Europe from December ... While many have suggested that it was the start of World War II in September 1939 that ended the mission, the ...

LONDON (AP) — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died ... be forced to capitulate during the early months of World War II. John “Paddy’’ Hemingway, an Irish national ...

Tributes have been pouring in as the last surviving pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain, Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway, has died aged 105. Hemingway was born in Dublin in 1919 and was ...

In part 2 of our Battle of Britain documentary, we explored how after Germany had swept over continental Europe, Britain under Prime Minister Winston Churchill refused to give in to Hitler’s ...

“Britain, facing a Continent dominated by her enemies, prepared for a fight to the death,” The New York Times had reported that June. Flying over France, Britain and Italy in World War ...

Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway had been the sole surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain. Less than 3,000 ... luck and fought along-side great pilots in magnificent air-craft, with ...