Though the reasons for WWI are murky to most Americans – something about the assassination of an Archduke, as well as the unification of feudal-era principalities into modern nation-states – the war ...

BRUSSELS, Feb 24 (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 ago - have been ...

They came in their uniforms or their Sunday best, bearing wreaths of cloth poppies and handwritten notes for fallen family members and countrymen, to be laid upon marble steps, to be read like poems ...

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In October and November 1914, exactly 100 years ago, the British Expeditionary Force and the German Army fought the First Battle of Ypres in northern Belgium. Before World War I was over, Ypres was ...

In the west of Belgium, near the French border, the A19 motorway ends in a four-lane, unfinished overpass. There’s no mountain here, no ocean, no city center. Nothing to explain why the heavy ...

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, left, the Duchess and Duke of Cambridge, 3rd left, King Philippe, third right, and Queen Mathilde, second right, of Belgium, watch as the poppies fall from the ...

YPRES, Belgium (AP) — Red poppy flowers were dropped onto soldiers, politicians and onlookers from across the world who gathered Tuesday in western Belgium for a ceremony to commemorate the end of ...