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

Spain’s ex-dictator Franco and the country’s civil war recently became a stage for populist exchanges between the clubs. This is why.

Initial forensic work has begun to try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of late dictator Francisco Franco’s forces who are among tens of thousands of people buried anonymously in the Valle de ...

Forensic scientists have begun exhuming the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from the former mausoleum of General Francisco Franco near Madrid, the government said on Monday.

Bitter rivals on and off the pitch, tensions between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona have taken an unexpected and incendiary turn with the two clubs embroiled in a war of words about which ...

The Spanish government on Thursday returned seven paintings to the descendants of an ex-Madrid mayor who lost them fleeing Francisco Franco's uprising as the country grapples with the dictator's ...

MADRID — One of the surest ways for a foreigner to make Spaniards bristle is to mention Francisco Franco while discussing current affairs.

The Madrid authorities have removed the city's last statue of former military ruler General Francisco Franco. Before dawn, to jeers and cheers from fascist and anti-fascist supporters, a crane lifted ...

A corruption scandal, accusations of favoritism and Franco’s regime: Real Madrid and Barcelona in war of words over Spain’s fascist past ...