There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

The pair signed a peace deal to bring a five-year civil war to an end in 2018. Kiir’s government detained two ministers and several senior military officials allied with Machar last week.

The extraordinary civil war engulfing one of Britain’s greatest cathedrals A rebellion has broken out among Winchester Cathedral’s congregation, but a new review is unlikely to allay fears of ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

The BBC accompanies the civil defence group as they respond to violence in Syria's coastal region. Many belong to former President Bashar al-Assad's sect, which was targeted in mass killings.

with more centrist elements attributing this to unpopular stances taken by progressives on culture war issues. A New York Times/Ipsos poll published in January found that 79 percent of Americans ...

Syria’s civil war had supposedly ended three months earlier, on Dec. 8, but none of the country’s heavily armed groups have fully lowered their guard since then. True peace feels particularly ...

...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 1245 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. * WHERE...Portions of southwest and west ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in fighting between forces of the new government and remnants of the ousted regime, according to a war monitor, which said about 700 were civilians.