Rwanda-backed rebels advance into eastern Congo's 2nd major city of Bukavu, residents say
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels enter Bukavu, escalating conflict and causing displacement in eastern Congo amid ceasefire ...
5 Medical Innovations from the Civil War
Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.
Enslaved people took refuge at pioneering hotel on NC Outer Banks. But perils awaited
A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...
Syria’s interim foreign minister says Russia-Iran ties to Assad are an open wound after war
Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for its people after those nations backed autocratic President ...
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
5 reasons John Bell Hood was the worst Civil War general
If there is one general that could be considered as having single-handedly lost the Civil War for the Confederates, it’s John ...
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...
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Syrian Civil War: What led to the fall of the regime
On Dec. 8, Syrian rebels entered Damascus, ending the Assad family’s 54-year rule and ostensibly the first phase of the ...
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Myanmar's rebels closing in around junta into fifth year of civil war
Bangkok - Myanmar's rebel groups made historic gains last year, the fourth of a civil war set off by a ... bases for the first time. As the war enters its fifth bloody year Saturday, experts tell VOA ...
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U.N. warns escalation in Congo war with M23 rebels bringing "summary executions" and gang rapes
The U.N. on Thursday said that it was "deeply concerned" by "credible reports" that the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels were advancing south from Goma to Bukavu — capital of the neighboring South Kivu ...
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M23 rebels face Burundian forces in eastern Congo, heightening war fears
NAIROBI - As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic ... Under the peace deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put in place ...