A cannonball is lodged in a historic Mississippi church, but was it fired by the Civil War gunboat USS Rattler?

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

The USS Maddox’ likely incorrect report of an attack on August 4, 1964, paved the way for a dramatic escalation of the ...

In 1964, by contrast, the ship was part of the origin story of a war that triggered deep social unrest and whose rights and wrongs continue to be vigorously debated. It’s an extraordinary story ...

An ocean freighter from India pulled into the bustling Port of Tampa Bay Tuesday loaded with hundreds of tons of aluminum destined for multiple US stops. Abruptly, the entire shipment was ordered ...

During World War Two, hundreds of cargo ships raced across the Atlantic in an effort to keep Britain supplied. But these ships were being sunk by German U-boats, warships and aircraft.

Peacetime is making US military doctors grossly unprepared for war, a retired Air Force colonel said. Col. Jeremy Cannon warned that trauma surgeons aren't getting enough cases to make them combat ...

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 ...

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.

Clarkson – the world’s largest ship broker – lost a fifth of its value yesterday as tariffs and war hit business. Warning that the ‘geopolitical outlook remains uncertain’, chief ...

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.