The Allied invasion of Vichy French North Africa in 1942, known as Operation Torch, was the first mass involvement of U.S. troops in the European-North African Theatre and the first major airborne ...

The figure who embodied and heightened the shame of North Africa was Admiral Jean François Darlan. History will decide whether Admiral Darlan deserved all that was said of him: that, because he had ...

France is expecting a ‘catastrophic’ wheat harvest in 2024, due to heavy rainfall – with the result that its capacity to sell to Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, its traditional customers, has dropped ...

The North Africa campaign was the first major U.S. offensive in World War II, taking place in Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, and Tunisia. Operation Torch, launched in November 1942, involved three ...