Belgian Paratroopers with automatic weapons stand guard over Congolese prisoners at the Leopoldville airport, July 13, 1960, ...

On October 31, a coalition of Belgian airport ground crew unions called on their members to stop handling weapons shipments to Israel. Nearly a month after the Israel-Gaza war erupted, this marks ...

It also helped that the mission involved a group of Illinoisians rescuing the Belgian king in the waning days of World War II. Illinois National Guard troops from the Army’s 106th Cavalry had ...