New scholarship shows that Abraham Lincoln was a deeply sensitive man who embraced radical acts of inclusion to keep the ...

Despite all of the disagreements that exist, he does not anticipate another Civil War. After the election results are announced, however, we may as well brace for a few forecasts of another one.

Sudan now has two governments based in cities at opposite ends of the vast Afro-Arab nation, separated by hundreds of kilometres of desert, lush green fields, the Nile and a trail of destruction and ...

The world's youngest nation, South Sudan, could be on the brink of another civil war. At the heart of the tensions is a power struggle between the country's president and vice president.

But the country slid into civil war in December 2013 when forces loyal to President Salva Kiir, who is from the largest ethnic group in the country, the Dinka, started battling those loyal to Riek ...

The belligerents are the last survivors of Syria’s hugely destructive civil war, which began in 2011 as another Arab Spring revolution, with antigovernment protesters demanding Assad leave.