RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Nearly 1,500 Latvians paid tribute on Friday to soldiers who fought in Nazi Germany's Waffen SS divisions, while nearby Russians held a counterprotest to recall war crimes ...

RIGA (Reuters) – Veterans of Latvia’s World War Two Waffen SS divisions and their supporters marched through the capital Riga on Saturday in a commemoration that passed off peacefully but drew ...

RIGA, Latvia – More than 1,000 people paid tribute Wednesday to Latvians who fought on the side of Nazi Germany in Waffen SS detachments during World War II.

RIGA , Latvia, March 13 (UPI) -- A court in Riga, Latvia, has ruled a Latvian ultra-loyalist group will not be allowed to march Sunday in a tribute to Waffen SS veterans of World War II.

Latvian flags mark the route of a march as people carry flowers to the Freedom Monument to commemorate World War II veterans who fought in Waffen SS divisions, in Riga, Latvia, Monday, March 16, 2015.

Latvians who fought in the local unit of Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS held their annual parade on Sunday, an event which the government feared could raise tensions with Russia as former Soviet ...

About one-third of Latvia’s 2 million residents are native Russian-speakers. The march will take place on the day that Crimea is set to hold a referendum on seceding from Ukraine.

Nearly 80,000 Jews, or 90 percent of Latvia’s prewar Jewish population, were killed in 1941-42, two years before the formation of the Latvian Waffen SS unit – which some Latvians claim shows ...

The march Wednesday, a controversial affair which is Europe’s only annual event by Waffen SS veterans, drew a handful of counter-protesters from Latvia’s Jewish community and about 40 anti ...

RIGA (Reuters) - Veterans of Latvia's World War Two Waffen SS divisions and their supporters marched through the capital Riga on Saturday in a commemoration that passed off peacefully but drew ...