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Among extremists, election results matter less than chaos and destruction – they hope ‘civil war kicks off’ either way

Stuart monarchs were repeatedly challenged by dangerous threats – a gunpowder plot, a civil war and political revolution. As a result, by the restoration of Charles II in 1660, the English government had come to rely on a shadowy trade of secrets for gathering domestic and international intelligence.

28 Civil War veterans finally receive proper burial with military honors after being unclaimed for years. The Missing In America Project ensures their memo...

Shadow government ‘concerned’ by army chief’s visit to China

Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar's faithful -- but getting the marble he needs from rebel-held quarries in the midst of civil war is now a perilous task.

Over the weekend a London tabloid headline blared “Golf's Civil War OVER” in a story which has not been corroborated by the warring parties yet has some information worth a closer look.

For decades, the cremated remains on more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities Washington

French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud on Monday won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel set during Algeria's civil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s. His main rival was Burundi-born Gaël Faye, who was Monday handed the prix Renaudot, another coveted prize.

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Mary Surratt, the building’s owner, would become the first woman executed by the US federal government

Sudan’s brutal civil war shows no signs of slowing, with reports of escalating atrocities and rampant sexual violence threatening to destroy entire communities. Harrowing accounts from a UN report detail widespread abuses, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) implicated in a surge of attacks targeting women and children.