In November 1936, two unmarked German Type VIIA submarines prowled the North Sea, cloaked in secrecy as they prepared for ...

MADRID (Reuters) -Spain on Thursday returned paintings belonging to a former Madrid mayor that were seized for their protection during the 1936-39 Civil War and never returned under Francisco ...

The troubles in Northern Spain continue to attract much attention in Europe, and to confirm the opinion of all students of Spanish politics that disorder may for many years be the normal condition ...

A team of experts in Spain has begun work to exhume the bodies of more than 100 civil war victims from a huge basilica complex near Madrid, where dictator Francisco Franco once lay.

Battle of the Nations In bitter cold and driving snow, into its 17th day last week moved the greatest battle Spain's war has yet produced. On any war map Teruel is the nail on a narrow finger ...

Ángeles Flórez Peón, memory keeper of Spanish Civil War, dies at 105 She aided leftist guerrillas as a teenager in the 1930s and then led political resistance from self-exile against the ...

The armies of Rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco marched up to Barcelona on three sides last week and, with no more than a sniper's fusillade, the biggest city in Spain fell. No European ...

Forensic scientists have begun exhuming the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from the former mausoleum of General Francisco Franco near Madrid, the government said on Monday.

The Spanish government has made it clear that a community of Benedictine monks is no longer welcome at the “Valley of the Fallen,” a Spanish Civil War memorial site not far from Madrid. The ...

A memorial honouring volunteers who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War would help bring a city and Spain together, a campaigner has said. About 20 people from Roker, Millfield ...

Spain's remarkably smooth transition to democracy is often attributed to the fact that - amid the dread of fresh civil conflict - people on both sides of the political spectrum were prepared to ...

Spanish government researchers said Sunday they had identified 357 foreign fighters who went missing during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the conflict that foreshadowed World War II.