The town hall of Predappio, Palazzo Varano, in Italy. The Italian dictator Mussolini was born in the town in 1883, and for a time he lived in this building, which was once a school.

The granddaughter of Italy's wartime dictator Benito Mussolini said on Thursday she was leaving Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party because it was too right wing, after ...

Indications that Premier Mussolini may take a more active interest in the situation of German Jewry were found today in his reception of Chief Rabbi Sacerdoti, and in the publication of a ...

Mussolini was an unimposing 5 feet 6 inches tall — 2 inches shorter than Adolf Hitler, 2 inches taller than Francisco Franco — but was fascism: pure energy in search of occasions for aggression.

Yet the evident nostalgia for legacies like that of Mussolini is also a symptom of our angry zeitgeist and the recent success of politicians and parties that tap into it. “Italian attitudes to ...

One hundred years after Benito Mussolini grabbed power in Rome, his photograph still hangs in the prime minister's official residence, striking evidence that Italy has yet to shake off its fascist ...

Mussolini was prime minister of Italy during World War II, until his deposition and execution in 1945. "When I said I supported equal voting rights, I meant men shouldn't vote either," Mussolini ...

Mussolini’s bunker at Villa Torlonia in Rome was built nearly 20 feet underground and clad in 13-feet thick cement walls. Construction started in December 1942 and was not quite finished when ...

He’s been dismissed as a buffoon, a small-time tyrant who ruled in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin. But in the world of twentieth century dictators, Benito Mussolini was a pioneer.