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Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union.

By Emily Baumgaertner Faded ink. Inconsistencies. Fires. The deadliest conflict in American history, the Civil War, also had some of its worst-kept records, making the true number of casualties ...

In addition to the humanitarian catastrophe, the Syria civil war continues to take a serious toll on the country’s economy. The Syrian people are faced with homelessness, as at least 22 percent ...

Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad has fled his country as rebels marched into the capital city Damascus late Saturday. The brutal leader’s nearly quarter century rule came to a stunning end as ...

On board was a representative of a ruthless paramilitary group accused of ethnic cleansing in Sudan’s sprawling civil war, the flight manifest showed. The gold itself had been smuggled from ...

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The number of people killed in Sudan’s civil war is far higher than previously thought, according to new research, as aid agencies warn that the conflict has created the world’s worst hunger ...

Sometimes a worst-case crisis scenario becomes a nightmare reality. The slaying of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO is one of those scenarios.

A civil war that dominated international headlines for more than a decade has now been reignited after a coalition of Syrian rebels launched a lightning offensive last week, seiz ing Aleppo, ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Sweden’s Minister for Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin presents the new version of the booklet “If ...