An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

A small island near the old Harkers Island Bridge site will be renamed in honor of a Carteret County resident killed in ...

This guest essay reflects the views of E. Christopher Murray, a partner at Uniondale-based law firm Rivkin Radler. President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs against Canada, Mexico and ...

Two Long Island historical memorabilia collectors say they will turn over 41 flags carried by Japanese servicemen in World War II — the only trace of some soldiers whose bodies were never ...

During a visit to a U.S. military base in the north of Greenland on Friday, U.S. Vice President JD Vance accused Denmark of not doing a good job of keeping the island safe and suggested the United ...

An island in the Bay of Bengal off the Indian Ocean is now eerie quiet and overgrown, but has a brutal history of occupation and earthquakes - and has become a haven for dark tourism. Netaji ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit the Japanese island of Ioto to remember those who died in World War Two. This year marks 8 decades since the end of the war. The island saw ...

One of those is Bunce Island. Located around 20 miles up the Sierra Leone River from Freetown, Bunce Island was once a key location in the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1670 and 1808 ...

Vanuatu, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific, has recently drawn international attention after its Prime Minister, Jotham Napat, ordered the cancellation of fugitive businessman Lalit Modi ...

The new prime minister of Greenland has pushed back against claims from Donald Trump that the US will take control of the island. Jens-Frederik Nielsen also urged Greenlanders to "calmly show the ...