YPRES, Belgium (AP) — As a bugler played the “Last Post,” a cascade of red paper poppies floated down Monday from Menin Gate in Ypres as visitors from around the globe came to honor the dead of World ...

YPRES, Belgium — “In Flanders fields,” the old poem says, “the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row.” And in the middle of those fields stands Ypres (pronounced “EE-pre”), haunted by World ...

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 ...

"The Killing Season" reframes how we understand 1914, not as an inevitable slide into stalemate, but as a season of decisive ...

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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 ...

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 ...

YPRES, Belgium, Oct. 28 (UPI) --German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended a centenary observance of the World War I Battle of Ypres in Belgium Tuesday. She praised Belgium for its "immeasurable ...

More than a century after the conflict ended, two soldiers killed in the First World War, one British and another German have ...

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 ...