A civilian team at a base in Maryland disposed of Syrian toxins a decade ago after hundreds of people were killed in a nerve agent attack.

She was one of the members of the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black Women’s Army Corps unit stationed overseas during World War II. Their story is now a ... Not only did her mother and the other ...

Johannesburg — Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, one side in a civil war that's torn ... in conflicts around the world, including by ISIS militants against Yazidi women in Iraq, but she told CBS ...

The coup and ensuing civil war have ravaged Myanmar ... according to the World Bank. This calamity has forced a new cadre of women in Myanmar into sex work: doctors, teachers, nurses and other ...

The 24-year-old from Sierra Leone spends her days waiting for an exit visa that could put her and her 1-year ... work conditions and sexual violence, along with the recent horrors of war in ...

A retired U.S. Army colonel led a task force that safely removed more than 550 metric tons of Iraqi uranium in 2008.Retired ...

The Irish in the Resistance, by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan, chronicles Ireland's role in the French Resistance ...

Here are some of the television highlights from tomorrow, Saturday, January 4, including North Shore, Playing Nice and Patience.

In this they were at one with the CIA, and a significant cohort of American spies were at work in Rome ... Vatican Spies: From the Second World War to Pope Francis, by Yvonnick Denoël, trans.

Actor Stephen Fry, former England manager Gareth Southgate and London mayor Sadiq Khan have been knighted in the New Year ...

This meant that, on the one hand, single women and ... save the country during the war. If you look at the long-term trend of women's work, World War II constitutes what you might want to call ...

An ode to the women who inspired me during the early months of darkness and others who have joined their ranks in the long ...