A military career spanning three decades sent a hometown boy around the world, an experience he brought back here to the Four ...

Inspired by his father, a World War II pilot, Doug Lawson joined the Navy Reserve during the Vietnam War era and was sent overseas in 1969. “You know, my father ...

Michele Fachini, a Second World War researcher, found a duffel bag of a Cape Breton soldier in Italy. With it, Fachini unearthed the story of Hector Colin McDonald.

Few travel moments rival that first encounter with a new city — the instant when its sounds, scents and pulse begin to unfold ...

In the aftermath of the Allied invasion of Sicily, American troops executed dozens of unarmed Italian and German prisoners.

Netflix is revisiting one of the most notorious showdowns in mob history: veteran mobster John Stanfa vs. young newbie Joseph ...

He single-handedly held off 250 German troops and six tanks, saving an entire company. And that was just the start of what he ...

John Stanfa, former head of the Philadelphia crime family, was involved in a violent conflict with Joey Merlino in the 90s ...

The FBI and Justice Department announced indictments involving an alleged illegal sports betting and gambling investigation ...

More than six decades later, what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again. States, and now nonstate actors, have been ...

Like drug wars in the past, Trump’s efforts are likely to deepen the chaos in Central America—exposing the US to greater danger.

On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the world’s first telegraph message, tapping out the biblical phrase “What hath God ...