Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had little to celebrate on Sunday as they began marking a normally festive Muslim holiday with ...

The images, captured by Planet Labs and Maxar Technologies, show some of the most striking damage to key infrastructure ...

The quake could exacerbate hunger and disease outbreaks in a country that was already one of the world’s most challenging ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

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

On Friday, the 7.7 magnitude quake hit the city of Sagaing in central Myanmar, and was followed by reports of destruction ...

In dramatic scenes that appear to mark a turning point in nearly two years of civil war, Sudan’s military ... a momentous shift in Africa’s largest war, which has brought massacres, famine and ...

Myanmar was hit by a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake on Friday, with tremors felt across Thailand and in nearby Chinese ...

The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain ...

This week, one of the parties to Sudan's civil war proclaimed it had "freed" the country's capital, Khartoum. Meanwhile the other party fighting said it made gains in the west of Sudan, in Darfur.

The assumption that there is a standard, agreed-upon truth about the country’s past is a fantasy; but when declared by a ...

Sudanese displaced families take shelter in a school after being evacuated by the Sudanese army from areas once controlled by ...