The Historic Banners project would be a way to celebrate and commemorate Worcester's unique connection to the English Civil ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

For decades, more than two dozen urns made of cardboard and copper have been sitting on storage shelves at a funeral home and ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...

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 ...

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 professor explains that highly heterogeneous societies (those comprised of many different social, cultural and ethnic groups) in which there is no single dominant cohort are not especially prone ...

Ukraine’s military announced that the number of Russian soldiers killed or wounded since the start of Moscow’s war on Kyiv has risen to about 885,130. Some 1,180 of these casualties were ...

Russia’s recent efforts to destabilise the Baltic states have increased enthusiasm for the EU in these places. With Euroscepticism growing in countries like France and Germany, @owenmatth wonders ...

Vladimir Putin has signaled his willingness to consider an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, although it would be under strict and potentially controversial conditions. As Donald Trump pushes to ...

The 35th Battalion was formed in December 1915 in Newcastle, New South Wales. The bulk of the battalion's recruits were drawn from the Newcastle region and thus it was dubbed "Newcastle's Own".