Kosovo police meet ‘armed resistance’

Pristina (AFP) - Kosovo police arrested more than a dozen fellow officers as part of a crackdown on organised crime in the mainly Serb north on Tuesday, triggering concern from…

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Read more about the article Serbia does not control Kosovo: Vucic
Serbia's President Vucic addresses parliament over Kosovo

Serbia does not control Kosovo: Vucic

  By Ivana Sekularac and Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia needs to accept that it has lost control over Kosovo, its former southern province, and it must seek a…

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NYmag.com: “Families Of The Missing”

NYmag.com article:"In the 1970s our President, Jane Durgom-Powers, became involved with the issue of missing persons from armed conflicts and their families. She worked with military families for over 32…

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Read more about the article The Day We Saved 2,147 POWs
Filipino guerrillas worked with the U.S. Marine Corps across the Pacific during WWII. (Photo: U.S. Marine Corps)

The Day We Saved 2,147 POWs

The Day We Saved 2,147 POWs From Los Baños Prison (reprinted from military.com) By February 1945, the cruel and inhumane treatment by the Japanese against their enemies was well known.…

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Read more about the article Recovering Korean War Dead
© Chung Sung-Jun/Getty ImagesA South Korean soldier standing in December at the Military Demarcation Line between South and North Korea, a site of fierce battles.

Recovering Korean War Dead

SEOUL—Atop a little-known ridge almost seven decades ago, French, South Korean and American troops fought off waves of mainly Chinese Communist forces in a series of trench battles that marked…

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Read more about the article Extremists attack upscale hotel complex in Nairobi
© The Associated Press Security forces help civilians flee the scene as cars burn behind, at a hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Terrorists attacked an upscale hotel complex in Kenya's capital Tuesday, sending people fleeing in panic as explosions and heavy gunfire reverberated through the neighborhood. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Extremists attack upscale hotel complex in Nairobi

NAIROBI, Kenya — Extremists attacked a luxury hotel in Kenya's capital Tuesday, sending people fleeing in panic as explosions and heavy gunfire reverberated through the complex and black smoke rose…

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Read more about the article Georges Loinger dies at 108
© Jacques Demarthon/AFP via Getty Images Georges Loinger in 2005, awarded the French title commander of the Legion of Honor.

Georges Loinger dies at 108

Georges Loinger, French resistance fighter who smuggled Jewish children to safety, dies at 108 Harrison Smith, Washington Post It had all started as a game. During World War II, when…

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