A must-visit for anyone interested in American history is this Civil War battlefield in North Carolina, which was the site of ...

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 ...

There are Turkish-backed rebels and Sunni Muslim jihadists in the north, Kurds ruling over much of Syria’s east, and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

To the north ... the Syrian Civil War. The region immediately outside Al-Tanf's 34-mile radius is controlled by local opposition groups, as is the area on the Israel-Jordan border south of ...

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