Noah, a slight teenager wearing jeans and sneakers, is dwarfed by the bronze statue of Belgium’s King Leopold II astride a horse. The statue, set high on a concrete plinth, has stood opposite the ...

Re “A Monument to Denial,” Commentary, March 2: I read Adam Hochschild’s powerful book “King Leopold’s Ghost” before our family traveled to Belgium. Before I took my kids to the Royal Museum of ...

The acclaimed filmmaker also discusses using music as “a historical agent” to investigate the dark colonial history of his native Belgium: "While politics is all about divide-and-conquer, it's the ...

57-51 B.C.: Caesar conquers the Belgae, tribes of Celtic origin. 1st-5th Centuries: The period of Pax Romana. The Salian Franks, of Germanic origin, occupy northern Brabant and Flanders. Christianity ...

BRUSSELS, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Belgium is promoting its centuries of beer-making and 430 breweries with a new visitor centre in Brussels that recounts the history of Belgian production and aims to show ...

Belgian cadets had a difficult time drilling during a recent parade. The following is an open letter to the esteemed Belgian Defence Forces on behalf of a now-perturbed international community. To ...

CHIEVRES, Belgium – If you were not interested in history classes as a student, or if you think history is boring and irrelevant, your assignment to the U.S. Army Garrison Benelux community might ...