Prime Minister Robert Fico has earned warm praise from Russia's foreign minister for remarks he made recently in a speech to mark the 80th anniversary of the battles at Dukla Pass during the early ...

SLOVAKIA’S top officials attended a commemorative event marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Dukla Pass between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, one of the bloodiest events of World War ...

Robert Fico also reminded that in 1944, some of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War took place in the vicinity of the Dukla pass near the Slovak-Ukrainian border ...

The lookout tower in the Dukla Pass, eastern Slovakia, boasts a comprehensively renovated observation dome. This tower is one of the main attractions of the Military History Museum in Svidník. From ...

Frederick Tintner, who has died aged 102, eluded the Gestapo dragnet, served with British, Czech and Soviet forces, and took part in the bitterly contested Battle of the Dukla Pass.