In September 1862, more than 22,000 Americans fell during the Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Victory teetered ...

When Union forces swept through Guntersville in the final year of the Civil War, all but seven buildings were burned to ash.

AL GHASSANIYEH, Syria — Under a golden autumn sun, Abdallah Ibrahim harvests fistfuls of hard, green olives with evident delight. "We were denied this pleasure for the last 14 years," he sighs. Barrel ...

Like a ghost in the night, Bilal Shorba, the artist they call the "Syrian Banksy", slipped through the rubble of Daraya to ...

While it is widely assumed that civil wars reinforce the existing political divisions, a recent sociological study sheds light on how these divisions actually can be reinvented during social conflict.

The bones of a home sit along Route 7 in Milton, the only remaining pieces on the former property of General George Stannard, ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced a Sudanese militia leader to 20 years in prison for atrocities committed ...

Fighters have settled across northern Syria, surprising displaced Syrians who've tried to return to their homes. Nearly a year after the war's... Syrians displaced by war are returning to find homes ...

Nearly one year after being destroyed by suspected arson, the Civil War-era home that most recently housed the popular House ...