However, new weapons like the pike and longbow changed the battlefield. At Morgarten (1315), Swiss foot soldiers defeated ...

This was never truer than in the post Mexican American War (1846-1848 ... to have dependable muzzleloading rifles fire as fast as the smoothbore muskets. The combination of these advancements ...

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 ...

Pea Ridge National Military Park hosted an event on Saturday to commemorate the 163rd anniversary of the Battle of Pea Ridge, one of the most significant conflicts of the Civil War. Volunteers and ...

(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of Syrians poured into the streets and public squares on Saturday to mark the 14th anniversary of the start of the country’s civil war for ...

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.

The BBC accompanies the civil defence group as they respond to violence in Syria's coastal region. Many belong to former President Bashar al-Assad's sect, which was targeted in mass killings.

A civil war has engulfed the country for two years, but some of the fiercest clashes have taken place in the sprawling city on the Nile, where the Sudanese military is battling the Rapid Support ...

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 ...