Alessandra Mussolini, a member of the European Parliament and the granddaughter of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, takes part in a parliament session in Strasbourg, France, last month. (Vincent ...

2005-04-19 04:00:00 PDT Axum, Ethiopia-- Abebe Alemyehu was 12 when he watched Mussolini's army storm into his northern Ethiopian hometown of Axum to carry off its ancient obelisk. Today, the 81 ...

A full million men, the greatest European army since 1919, moved last week at Benito Mussolini’s orders, 500,000 on Italy’s Austrian frontier, 300,000 training for action against Ethiopia ...

In 1935, Benito Mussolini wanted to make Italy great again, so he invaded Ethiopia. The war boosted his popularity but also inspired one of the 20th century’s greatest satires.

Italy’s World War II dictator, Benito Mussolini, ... So in 1937, after his troops had invaded Ethiopia, Mussolini ordered them to bring back a 1,700-year-old obelisk from Axum, ...

Italian officials announced Thursday that the 88-foot Axum obelisk, which Benito Mussolini looted from Ethiopia 1937, is being returned to Ethiopia. Top News U.S. News ...

ROME — What Ethiopian Ambassador Mengistu Hulluka can’t figure out is why influential Italians even want the 80-foot carved granite pillar that stands, without any identification, at a smoggy ...

Maaza Mengiste was in Rome, doing research for her new novel, “The Shadow King,” when she found a picture taken in Ethiopia in 1935, when Italians invaded. It was, she says, an incredib… ...