It's almost 80 years since the end of World War Two, during which Orkney became home to hundreds of Italian prisoners of war.

A soldier who went missing in action during an aquatic mission in World War II has been accounted for, military officials ...

Following a fierce tank battle, a WW II tanker managed to bamboozle both Italian and German troops into surrendering to a utensil.

Outcome: Defeat of the Italian forces in East Africa. In 1940, Italy controlled Abyssinia, which it had conquered in 1936, as well as the 19th-century conquests of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland.

AP Photo The huge Sunderland flying boat soon began to break up and was left to the mercy of the sea, somewhere near apollonian in Cyrenaica, Libya, Jan. 31, 1942. As the men shivered while drying ...

She has repeatedly vowed to crack down on immigration and has pledged to stop boats heading to Italy from North Africa, vowing to put an end to illegal departures and human trafficking.

Italy's government is facing a backlash after ... led Axis marked the beginning of the end for its ambitions in North Africa. Thousands of Italians were among those killed or captured in the ...