Cuba rebels, army battle for key city. HAVANA, Dec. 30, 1958 (UPI) - A life or death struggle for the central Cuban city of Santa Clara raged today.

Cuban revolutionaries invaded their island homeland by air and sea today and clashed with Fidel Castro's forces in a violent waterfront battle just 90 miles from Havana.

Many of the doctors on the frontlines of the battle against coronavirus in the global South are also graduates of Cuba’s international medicine school in Havana, which has trained an estimated ...

In the week that was supposed to open Fidel Castro's battle for Cuba, his ragged rebel army showed clearly enough what it could and could not do against the well-armed troops of Dictator ...

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, a chubby man of 56, last week commemorated the day 24 years ago when, as a lowly army sergeant, he threw out a bumbling government and began his long career as off ...

Fort Lee is now named for Pvt. Fitz Lee. The new namesake was a Buffalo Soldier who earned the Medal of Honor for his actions ...

José Martí, Cuba's George Washington, was killed in battle in 1895. On May 20, 1902, the birth date of the first Cuban republic, no leader had the power to harness the passions and ambitions ...

Major General William Shaftner, the former Commander of the 25th Infantry Regiment, one of the four Buffalo Soldier units in the US Army, was now in charge of US forces in Cuba.

When the 8th Illinois Regiment left for Cuba 100 years ago this August for the Spanish-American War, the men — African-American soldiers in the volunteer army — viewed their mission as sacred ...

BAYAMESA, LA. Translated lyrics of Cuba's national anthem, first performed during the Battle of Bayamo in 1868: Hasten to battle, men of Bayamo. For the Fatherland looks proudly upon you.

Elián González made headlines in 1999 as the boy found floating on an inner tube near Florida shores and became the center of an international custody battle between the U.S. and Cuba.