About 15,000 Jews were killed in the first wholesale massacre in Riga, in the courtyard of the Qudrat Rubber Co. factory outside the city, on November 27, 1941.

The Swedish Armed Forces said that Sweden and Denmark would take turns leading a battalion as part of a brigade based outside Riga. Danish and Swedish troops will replace each other every six ...

The Latvian pilot and, later, "Butcher of Riga" Herbert Kucurs before his Riga-Tokyo flight in 1937. ... Swedish far-right party apologizes for its past links to Nazis and antisemitism ahead of ...

Canada's defence minister lauded the integration of hundreds of Swedish troops into the Canadian-led multinational NATO brigade in Latvia, describing the event as a landmark. A ship carrying parts ...