BASTOGNE, Belgium -- As the attack grew near on Dec. 27, 1944, families in Bastogne, Belgium, about an hour and a half southeast of Brussels, evacuated the city, moving from cellar to cellar to ...

The massed ranks of empty chairs at the Belgian World War One exhibition - one for each country and region that sent soldiers to die here a century ago - have been replaced by just two to mark the ...

In the darkest corner of a grand museum that looks like a neo-classical palace lies a not-so-secret room. It is filled with statues of Congolese people, which have been regarded as racist, that ...

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The massed ranks of empty chairs at the Belgian World War One exhibition – one for each country and region that sent soldiers to die here a century ...

Item 1 of 2 Two wooden chairs, one sent from Ukraine and one from Russia, symbolising casualties from Russia's war in Ukraine a century after "the war to end all wars" had ended, are shown on ...

A photo from a museum display in Zoersel, Belgium shows how residents of the town risked danger to place flowers at the town hall in honor of Staff Sgt. Joe Schreppel after the crash of the B-17 ...

The first U.S. troops, other than an earlier reconnaissance mission, entered Belgium on Sept. 2, 1944, at Cendron in Hainaut province. The following day, they liberated Mons, about 40 miles north.

During WWII, the Nazi German Army built a military stronghold at the Directeur-Generaal Willemspark in Knokke-Heist, officials said. The site, known as Stützpunkt Heyst, was considered impenetrable.