Esther Freud introduces an extract from the heartbreaking wartime diaries of Edith Velmans, born 100 years ago ...

The institutional antisemitism and embrace of a Jewish exception in international organizations such as the Red Cross and the ...

A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

Palestinian Hamas fighters escort Israeli hostage Or Levy on a stage before handing him over to a Red Cross team in Deir ...

Israel has condemned the condition of the hostages released on Saturday as a “crime against humanity”, as Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Stewart was one of the last surviving combat pilots of the famed 332nd Fighter Group also known as the Tuskegee Airmen.

Apart from Argentina, I had an apartment, a salvation office, that’s what it was called, in the city of Bern, Switzerland.

Canadians Marielle Thompson, India Sherret, and Reece Howden raced onto the podium at a World Cup ski cross event in Veysonnaz, Switzerland, on Saturday. Thompson, of Whistler, B.C., beat Germany ...

Geneva (AFP) – The Red Cross ... "From day one, we have called for the immediate release of all the hostages, and for access to them," it says. In World War II, the ICRC visited prisoners ...

The truce is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever ... the release, one in Jabaliya and the other in the southern city of Khan Younis, in front of the destroyed home of ...