Reporting from Ypres, Belgium — “In Flanders fields,” the old poem says, “the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row.” And in the middle of those fields stands Ypres (pronounced “EE-preh”), ...

Aime van Nieuwenhove, a wealthy lace merchant in the pretty Flemish town of Ypres, was a worried man in November 1914. As a local councillor he had organised the evacuation of thousands of civilians, ...

Two construction workers were killed Wednesday after a World War I shell exploded near the Belgian town of Ypres, site of some of the bloodiest battles in the conflict. Two other men were hurt, one ...

From his seat in the Avro biplane 2,000ft above the Ypres Salient, Archibald James, an Observer with the Royal Flying Corps, scanned the desolation below. It was April 22, 1915 and six months of ...

In the west of Belgium, near the French border, the A19 motorway ends in a four-lane, unfinished overpass. There’s no mountain here, no ocean, no city center. Nothing to explain why the heavy ...

BRUSSELS, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The massed ranks of empty chairs at the Belgian World War One exhibition - one for each country and region that sent soldiers to die here a century ago - have been ...

In April of 1915, Allied forces were battling the German Army for control of Ypres, a Flemish town in western Belgium. Months before, fighting with many young and untested soldiers, the Germans had ...

The site has been sealed off while explosives experts are brought in A shell or grenade buried in western Belgium since World War One, has exploded, killing two people. At least two more were injured, ...

The anonymous British author hunkered down in the bombed-out ruins of Ypres, or enduring the horrors of the Western Front during the First World War, knew a thing or two about soldiering. In his poem ...