The fear that our past will divide us has returned. Franco, in death, lingers on, a ghost that haunts the living of Spain. In ...

Last week marked 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator of Spain from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975. How does a democracy handle the ...

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wants the country to pay tribute to the victims of the fascist dictatorship, and learn from its ...

PAMPLONA, Spain – Marking eight decades since the end of the Spanish Civil War, the remains of 46 unidentified victims of the conflict have been reburied in the northern city of Pamplona. More than ...

The Spanish government has granted citizenship to 170 descendants of volunteers in the International Brigades in recognition of their fight against fascism. Sam Wild from Manchester joined the ...

The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 when Francisco Franco led a dissident group of staunchly conservative and Catholic generals, as well as half the Spanish Army, against the liberal, elected ...

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier honoured Nazi war victims in Guernica on Friday, becoming the first German leader to visit ...

In 1936, after years of mounting political unrest and violence, a military uprising plunged Spain into a brutal civil war ...

A Vatican cardinal beatified four martyrs of the Spanish Civil War on Saturday. Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, declared Francesco Cástor Sojo López ...

The beatification ceremony for sixteen martyrs of the Spanish Civil War will be held in February at the Granada Cathedral. Father Cayetano Giménez Martín and his 15 companions will be beatified Feb.

People carry the coffins of some of the 46 coffins of unidentified people killed during the Spanish Civil War, at San Jose cemetery, Pamplona, northern Spain, Monday, April 1, 2019. Marking eight ...