South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, fell into a bloody civil war soon after gaining independence in 2011, as forces aligned with Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fought those loyal to Machar ...

What do you know about the Civil War? Everyone knows the familiar images: soldiers in Union blue versus troops in Confederate ...

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.

with more centrist elements attributing this to unpopular stances taken by progressives on culture war issues. A New York Times/Ipsos poll published in January found that 79 percent of Americans ...

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 year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Syria’s civil war had supposedly ended three months earlier, on Dec. 8, but none of the country’s heavily armed groups have fully lowered their guard since then. True peace feels particularly ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the ... Electricity and drinking water were cut off in large areas around ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...