Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

Technological advancements made the development of these engines possible -- and forever changed the way outside observers ...

The military renamed Forts Benning and Bragg, both established in 1918, as part of a broader effort by Congress to strip the names of Civil War rebels ... watchman's defective .38-caliber revolver.

44 caliber lever-action Henry Rifle which saw use during the Civil War. Although centerfire rounds ... and just a very tad more powder. Lubricated bullets also allowed for cleaner bores, shot ...

Construction work near one of Greece's most notorious prisons in Thessaloniki has unearthed the remains of dozens of people executed during the Greek Civil War era, relatives and officials said ...

At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...

A man points at bullet holes in a window of a hospital following ... which contracted 84 percent during the war; if they seek to impose Islamic law—not an unreasonable concern given HTS ...

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 civil defense spokesman called for an international investigation into the Israeli army's killing of the Palestinian medics. The death of the Palestinian medics triggered a massive war of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An outbreak of factional fighting in northern Ethiopia has led Africa’s second most populous country back ...

The People's Republic of China has claimed Taiwan through its "one China" policy since the Chinese civil war forced the defeated Republic of China government to flee to the island in 1949 ...