With its Cloth Hall, Menin Gate and state of the art In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres is a hotspot for tourists. Yet far from the pomp, the massive monuments and big crowds, there is plenty of ...

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 ...

IEPER, Belgium — “The best way to carry out good propaganda,” wrote the late British Cabinet Minister Richard Crossman, “is never to appear to be carrying it out at all.” Crossman’s words echo through ...

1,043 American soldiers perished in Belgium during World War I, 368 of whom are interred at Flanders Field American Cemetery. Today, Memorial Day, we remember their courage—and the courage of all ...

Just before Remembrance Day, four handwritten copies of John McCrae’s iconic war poem In Flanders Fields have been recognized and added to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s Canada Memory of the ...

YPRES, Belgium (AP) — Crimson poppies still dance in the breeze as if nothing horrific happened in Flanders Fields. But a century after the start of World War I, the flowers endure as a symbol of war ...