Soar over Verdun, France, a city deeply scarred by history and home to one of the infamous Zone Rouges—areas still ...

VERDUN, France — In solemn ceremonies Sunday in the forests of eastern France, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked 100 years since the Battle of Verdun, ...

On Nov. 11, 1918, the fighting ended on the Western Front. “The Great War,” as it was known for a short time, was over. But the peace, such as it was, did not last, and, one generation later, the ...

The Douaumont ossuary holds the remains of 130,000 soldiers, both French and German French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed on Sunday for Europe to unite to ...

French President Francois Hollande, right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pay their respect in front of the Eternal Flame at the Douaumont's Ossuary, in Douaumont, northeastern France, Sunday May ...

All these years later, I still remember the bones. Piles and piles and piles of bones. Femurs and skulls, clavicles and scapulas. sternums and ribs. The jumbled remains of more than 100,000 men who ...

The hallways of the Douaumont Ossuary are covered with the names of fallen soldiers. Underneath lie the skeletal remains of more than 100,000 French and German fighters. Travis Pinson / Special ...

The Battle of Verdun, a massive German onslaught in northeastern France meant to gain a decisive final victory on the Western Front in World War I, began on this day in history, Feb. 21, 1916. It is ...

President François Hollande and Chancellor Angela Merkel made an impassioned plea for European unity on Sunday as they commemorated the centenary of the Battle of Verdun, which claimed at least ...

French President Fran?ois Hollande, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel lay a wreath Sunday at a German cemetery in Consenvoye, France during a remembrance ceremony to mark the centenary of the ...