When Spain’s star judge turned his sights on Spanish Civil War atrocities, however, they joined forces with his many personal enemies and went after him, accusing him of opening old wounds and ...

These chambers operated during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, and were the work of communists fighting for the government side as it battled troops under fascist Gen. Francisco Franco. Their ...

A Spanish judge opened a criminal investigation Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, into atrocities committed during the Spanish Civil War and ensuing right-wing dictatorship, launching the first official ...

Mr. Garzón, who went after leaders like Augusto Pinochet of Chile, was himself suspended last month after being charged with abusing his powers to investigate Spanish Civil War atrocities.

NEWS ANALYSIS: The attempt by Spain’s socialist government to turn a Spanish Civil War memorial into a civil cemetery is seen by Catholic Spaniards as an attack against the nation’s historical ...

The fuse for World War II might have been lit in the hills of Spain. The Spanish Civil War still leaves us with a question: What price stability?

A Mediterranean nation beset by military coup and civil war. A savage struggle marked by atrocities and fanaticism. Proxy war waged by outside nations pumping in men, weapons and money.

They stabbed him to death on Aug. 7. The Spanish Civil War saw atrocities and heroism on both sides of the political debate.

When Spain’s star judge turned his sights on Spanish Civil War atrocities, however, they joined forces with his many personal enemies and went after him, accusing him of opening old wounds and ...

The Spanish Civil War “remains very much a burning issue of contemporary political significance,” an audience at the British Academy heard Professor Paul Preston of the London School of ...

Historian Adam Hochschild’s new book “Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939” tells the stories of Americans who volunteered to fight, moved by ideology ...