Spain's fierce passion for football took an unexpected turn on Thursday as two teams faced off playing with an unusual ball: ...

Larissa Swirski was the only triple agent operating in Spain during World War II and a key figure in the battle for control of the western Mediterranean. 'Queen of Hearts' rescues her story in the ...

Spain's Supreme Court has ordered the heirs of former dictator Francisco Franco to return two religious statues to the city of Santiago, concluding a years-long legal dispute over their ownership. The ...

This year marks 50 years since Spain’s former dictator Francisco Franco died, ending his 36-year iron grip on the country and giving way to what has been widely lauded as a model transition to ...

What was one of Europe's longest-running dictatorships is coming under scrutiny as a victim of alleged torture by the forces of General Francisco Franco testifies for the first time in a Spanish ...

For the first time since Francisco Franco’s death in 1975, a victim who says he was tortured by the dictator’s regime will testify before a Spanish court in a hearing that opens on Friday.

Until now, the courts in Spain have rejected lawsuits filed by Franco-era victims, arguing that they fell under an amnesty law passed in 1977 during Spain’s transition to democracy, or that the ...

But I was deprived ofnewmasters. Under Franco’s dictatorship, Madrid lacked a dynamic art scene. When fascists ousted democracy in 1939, many writers, musicians, philosophers and painters fled ...

Spain marked its first-ever day of remembrance for Franco-era victims on Monday, established under the newly passed Democratic Memory Law. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hosted an event ...

Under Franco’s regime, at least 114,000 civilians were “disappeared”; hundreds of concentration camps were established; thousands of babies were stolen from republican prisoners.

Among these is Flor Baena, who spent decades trying to clear the name of her brother Jose Humberto - one of the last five people executed under Franco’s rule before his death in 1975.