These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from ...

Suleiman Khalil was harvesting olives in a Syrian orchard with two friends four months ago, unaware the soil beneath them ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s first resolution on landmines strongly endorses the long-standing international ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

The move comes in response to a petition by Öztürk’s lawyers Wednesday night asking the judge order her to be sent from ...

The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under ...

That would pose a threat well beyond the Middle East ... This was the cauldron that spilled over during Syria’s civil war, which began in 2011, led to the rise of the Islamic State, and ...

Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

Carter, founder of the Union Civil War Soldier Monument Advisory and Implementation Committee, and Scott, a member of Northampton’s historical society, had proposed that a monument to the area ...

Mercer County Cemetery, the final resting place of nearly 200 Civil War veterans, hosted commemoration services for the 160th ...

The First South Carolina Volunteers, the first regiment of Black soldiers to fight for the Union in the Civil War, was formed in May 1862 in Beaufort. Courtesy Mitchell first heard the story at a ...