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

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Students and professors at the University of Tennessee uncovered remnants of a Civil War trench in the heart of campus recently. State law requires excavation any time there is ...

After the battle, Confederate soldiers killed at least 100 Black soldiers and civilians, ransacked the town for souvenirs and ...

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

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

Russia is holding on to the main naval and air bases it uses as staging points for the Mediterranean and Africa, even as it pulls its forces back from smaller outposts in Syria following the overthrow ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

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

Syrian insurgents reached Damascus as part of a rapidly moving offensive that saw them take over some of Syria's largest ...

Rebel forces in southern Syria have reportedly captured most of the Deraa region - the birthplace of the 2011 uprising ...

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.

AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they seized control of the southern city of Daraa on Saturday, the birthplace of ...