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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a ragbag of a gathering. On Sunday morning, March 23, Mussolini addressed a group of perhaps 120 men and several women: ...

After Mussolini’s arrest, Adolf Hitler ordered a daring rescue mission to free his ally from captivity. German commandos ...

The great-grandson of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini defended his grandfather's legacy on Wednesday, calling the era "a very complicated, complex period." “You can’t define it in terms of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before Benito Mussolini turns to the camera and says, “Make Italy great again” — speaking in English for the one and only ...

Any democratic government that decays into dictatorship will have its Mussolini moment, sooner or later. The original Mussolini moment came 97 years ago this week, when Italy’s government, up till ...

The birthplace of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini could soon start building a museum of fascism, a move likely to stir controversy in a country that already has an uneasy relationship with its World ...

Anti-Trump author and New York University history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat argued that the assassination attempt on former President Trump speaks "to how autocrats can use adversity to strengthen ...

A historian says Benito Mussolini, who declared war on Britain at the start of World War II, was well paid as a British agent during World War I. The Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday that Peter ...

Donald Trump has been coming under fire for retweeting a quote from Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini on Twitter--and it turns out the whole thing was an elaborate setup by Gawker. In a Sunday ...