President Donald Trump is reportedly setting his sights on a Christmas peace deal in the Ukraine-Russia war. The timing is apt. Every December, political leaders reach instinctively for the language ...

100,000 soldiers along the Western Front of World War I participated in the 1914 Christmas Truce. They left their trenches and ventured into no man’s land to embrace their enemies—resistance from men ...

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today Location: Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum, 322 Washington St., Waterloo Details: Explore life for the average soldier during the Great War. Discover what life was ...

The sun rises over a reconstructed WWI trench in Ploegsteert, Belgium. (Virginia Mayo/AP) By late December 1914 World War I had been raging for nearly five months. Had anyone really believed it would ...

In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, former All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro set out to reconstruct the events of that day. In the months after World War I ...