WASHINGTON — At least three popes prayed for his soul, but Commandante Fidel Castro, the Jesuit-educated dictator who tyrannized Cuba for almost 50 years, resisted their merciful intercessions. His ...

SANTIAGO, Cuba — Fidel Castro’s ashes were interred in a private ceremony Sunday morning, ending nine days of mourning for the man who ruled Cuba for nearly half a century. The military caravan ...

SANTIAGO DE CUBA — The cemetery holding the ashes of communist leader Fidel Castro opened to the public for the first time Monday morning. Cubans and tourists lined up under a scorching sun to get ...

Fidel Castro famously micromanaged everything in Cuba — from sugarcane production to elementary school textbooks — so it’s no surprise that before he died, he dictated precisely what would happen at ...

Cuba's President Raul Castro receives the ashes of his older brother Fidel Castro from an honor guard before placing them into a niche in his tomb. AP SANTIAGO, Cuba — Fidel Castro’s ashes were ...

SANTIAGO DE CUBA — As the sun rose over this eastern city after nine days of government-imposed mourning for Fidel Castro, something strange happened. The streets, calm throughout the mourning period, ...

Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolution commander who governed and symbolized the island nation for half a century, was memorialized Saturday night by hundreds of thousands of cheering, flag-waving people ...

The classic image we have of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro is that of a bearded man in military fatigues — the uniform of revolution. But in his later years, Castro donned another outfit: the ...

The Rev. Raphael Warnock described Fidel Castro’s legacy as “complex” in a remembrance from the pulpit two days after the Cuban strongman’s death, as shown in a newly unearthed 2016 sermon. The ...

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As Cuba began a nine-day period of national mourning for former leader Fidel Castro, who died on Saturday, "battalions of his critics and admirers began a fight over his legacy" and "reignited global ...