“South Sudan is one major escalation away from slipping into a new civil war,” said Alan Boswell, the Horn of Africa director at the International Crisis Group. “Should the government ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

In 2011, nearly 99 percent of South Sudanese ... and pre-existing ethnic tensions plunged the newly independent state into political turmoil. Tensions erupted into civil war in December 2013 ...

Preservation work has begun on a Frederick County farmhouse that predates the Civil War and sits on land where an influential ...

Residents of Juba, the capital of South Sudan, are familiar with violence. When civil war erupted in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan, the city was the scene of ethnic massacres and ...

In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...

Preservation work has begun on a Frederick County farmhouse that predates the Civil War and sits on land where an influential ...

The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...

Uganda Deploys Special Forces to South Sudan to Protect the Government as Fears of Civil War Grow KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid ...

The US is evacuating non-emergency personnel from oil-rich South Sudan amid concerns that Africa’s youngest nation is again on the precipice of civil war. Tensions in the strife-torn country ...

Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates today: Newspapers during the Civil War often presented starkly different ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.