Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 marked the return of high-intensity warfare in Europe. Now, almost three years later and ...

Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon), a French archipelago of two islands located in North America about ...

OMAHA BEACH, France - A brief timeline of events on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Shortly after midnight: More than 2,200 Allied aircraft begin bombing German defenses and other targets in Normandy.

After the invasion and defeat of France in June 1940, Hitler turned his attention to the invasion of Britain, the last country in Western Europe to stand against him. Photo: Hitler giving his ...

On 6 June 1944, British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast of Normandy in northern France. The landings were the first stage of Operation Overlord - the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

Events are taking place in France and the UK to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of France. On 6 June 1944, tens of thousands of soldiers landed on five beaches in Normandy ...