The Second World War ended eight decades ago this summer. But its specter looms large today. The war ended empires, upended ...

A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo’s Budokan hall at noon, the same time then-Emperor Hirohito’s 4½-minute prerecorded ...

President Harry Truman announced Aug. 14, 1945, that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to end World War II. In several ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin stopped at a Russian memorial honoring Soviet-era cooperation with American forces during Word War II, ahead of his meeting in Alaska with U.S. President Donald Trump.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan paid tribute Friday to more than 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World ...

The doomsday coming to the French town of Saint-Lô was to be of biblical proportions. The Allies had to warn the town’s ...

In just 30 seconds, we use Google Earth to visualize the entire course of World War II. From the initial invasions to the ...

Eighty years have passed since the end of a war that brought Japan to the brink of destruction and claimed countless lives in ...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Friday for a peaceful end to the “increasingly deafening violence” of wars ...

Cam Pelletier was a 23-year-old serving in the Navy in the South Pacific in August 1945 when President Harry Truman announced that Japan had surrendered ending World War II.

Anderson, of Dover, passed away on Aug. 1, at the age of 102. To recognize Anderson's lifetime of service, Governor Meyer ...