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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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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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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Violence against journalists

    PARIS (Reuters) - The murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi in a year when more than half of all journalists killed were targeted deliberately reflects a hatred of…

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Greetings from Kosovo

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:57 AM Sheremet Ademi wrote:   Hello our Dearest Jane, I am sending you photos from our city Mitrovica Decorated with American flags. Thanks…

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Ex-IS captive recalls captivity
© The Associated Press In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, women and children who were rescued from the Islamic State group in the Hamima area east of the historic town of Palmyra, after they arrived to the southern province of Sweida, Syria, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. Islamic State group militants shot and killed two children during an operation to liberate a group of hostages from southern Syria that were being held by the extremist group since July, a father and activists said Friday. (SANA via AP)

Ex-IS captive recalls captivity

DAMASCUS, Syria — A Syrian woman liberated from captivity said Friday that Islamic State militants held her and more than two other dozen women and children in different hideouts for…

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