As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil War is a period many would like to forget. However, it’s impossible ...

This is the 21st in a series of in-depth stories based on the findings of the City of Frankfort’s African American Historic ...

A rebel advance on Homs, 40 km (24 miles) south of Hama, could cut Damascus off from the coastal region, an area where Assad ...

Assad has fled to Russia and Syria's three biggest cities - Aleppo, Damascus and Homs - are now under the control of the ...

If Homs were to fall, it would leave three of the country’s five largest cities in the hands of the forces led by the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

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In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...

On board was a representative of a ruthless paramilitary group accused of ethnic cleansing in Sudan’s sprawling civil war ... Khartoum. The map also shows Wau in South Sudan and its capital ...

While the main opposition forces have seized Damascus, the rest of Syria is under the control of numerous other factions.

Oregon’s conservative western counties want to break away from their deep-blue state and become part of the solidly red state ...

For more than a decade, Syria’s multi-front civil war had raged, leaving the country ... on Dec. 3, before moving south toward Hama. Just days later, HTS-affiliated rebels claimed control ...