(THE CONVERSATION) During the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River. Called ironclads, these boats were about 50 yards long, carried 75 tons of armor on their hulls and ...

Team of cadaver dogs spent 2 days at Honey Hill battlefield to search for remains of soldiers killed in 1864 and never ...

It's unclear how the issue of ownership of the Panama Canal became a talking point for President-elect Donald Trump this week ...

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There have been almost daily attacks on Sudan's largest refugee camp over the last few weeks. The camp was already experiencing famine and now hundreds of refugees are fleeing for safety ...

An Israeli military raid targeting Hamas militants has forced a major hospital in northern Gaza out of service and led to the ...

Artillery shelling has hit Sudan’s biggest ... famine and disease in the midst of the country’s continuing civil war. As many as a million people from across the Darfur region of western ...

In an attack earlier Friday, an artillery shell struck Aleppo University ... Both Iran and Russia are key allies to Syria. Syria’s civil war began during the 2011 Arab Spring as the regime ...

Footage shared on Twitter allegedly shows a large Russian military convoy, consisting of armored vehicles, trucks, and artillery, leaving an air base.

Assad, Afaf Mohammed did what she could not for more than a decade: she climbed Mount Qasyun to admire a sleeping Damascus ...

There were allegations of ballot box stuffing, intimidation and civil servants being forced to ... has accused the government of declaring "war" on its people. In an address to the nation on ...