He joined a military coup, fought ruthlessly in the Spanish Civil War, and emerged as the dictator of Spain. For almost 40 years, Franco worked to transform the country into a bastion of tradition.

This property became one of the most famous monuments to the bombing of Madrid by Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and was immortalized by ...

Civil War device found in garage. The German-built bomb was taken to an authorised area where it was destroyed in a ...

The fallout of the Spanish Civil War, which saw the oppression of regions such as Catalunya and the Basque Country by Franco's Madrid-domiciled forces, further entrenched division in the country.

Dolores Ibárruri was nicknamed La Pasionaria for her fiery speeches to the anti-fascist forces during the Spanish civil war. The fighting ... led by General Francisco Franco, launched an uprising ...

Our national alignment with Vladimir Putin and is war against Ukraine is a betrayal of what past generations fought and died ...

the war, and the subsequent dictatorship led by Franco, as well as Argentina's current effort, by invoking the principle of universal jurisdiction, to prosecute Francoists accused of committing ...

The Spanish state on Thursday took ... More than half a million people died during the 1936-39 civil war and an estimated 150,000 were killed later by Franco's government, historians estimate.