Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the 26 March arrest of Vice-President Riek Machar, ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Peter Popham speaks to a monk about the devastation the 7.7 magnitude tremor has wrought on the town of Mingun – a few miles ...

So far, 33 skeletons have been found near a notorious prison, officials said. The grisly find included the discovery of ...

People liked him, all parties ... What was Congress like in the decades leading up to the Civil War? The paintings from the time show senators in black frocks debating, their fingers thrust ...

A Democratic congresswoman from California believes President Donald Trump is promoting “violence” so the U.S. ultimately ends in a “civil ...

Five decades after the start of Lebanon's civil war, veterans of the conflict are speaking out about their past role in the country's warring militias and how they broke with their respective parties.

Many young people reach adolescence without ever having studied either the Spanish Civil War or the dictatorship, making them ...

Angola requires $240 million from government or donor funding to clear nearly 1,000 minefields from the civil war that ended more than two decades ago, the National Mine Action Agency head said.

More than 2,000 are dead and thousands more injured. In many places, there is no electricity or internet, and the health ...