Returning by popular demand, Kentucky Opera revives its acclaimed production, All is Calm. Told entirely through the power of ...

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 ...

Holiday show tells the true story of the 1914 Christmas Truce, featuring classic carols, such as “Silent Night,” in multiple ...

Around the world and in unprecedented numbers across the United States, people of conscience are demanding an immediate end to the unfathomable horror escalating by the hour in Gaza. In the streets, ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, six months into World War I, a group of Allied and German soldiers put down their weapons for a brief time, shared cigarettes and chocolate with their enemies and joined in ...

LONDON -- Alfred Anderson, the last surviving soldier to have heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front during the spontaneous "Christmas Truce" of World War I, died Monday at age 109. More ...

The Western Front. Christmas. A German soldier sets down his rifle and steps into No Man’s Land, singing “Silent Night”. Thus ...

PLOEGSTEERT, Belgium -- With British and German forces separated only by a no man's land littered with fallen comrades, sounds of a German Christmas carol suddenly drifted across the frigid air: ...

The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man's Land singing "Stille Nacht." Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, ...

We’ve all heard the word “truce” a lot lately, especially in the context of the Israel-Hamas conflict. After intense negotiations, the combatants agreed to stop shooting for a few days to accommodate ...