The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

"How does he know what's going on? He was there for two weeks and he's an expert in USAID? Give me a break," said former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios.

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

A trunk filled with reproductions and models of Civil War-era items is giving middle school students here an opportunity to more deeply explore that time period.

Sudan's civil war is starving millions of civilians, who rely largely on foreign aid that has come from the U.S. more than ...

Four years after Myanmar’s military coup sparked gunfighting, torture, rape and arson in Rakhine state, young Rohingya men ...

Scattered across Rojava - the Kurdish-led region in Syria that spearheaded the global fight against the Islamic State - there are prisons holding thousands upon thousands of captured ISIS fighters ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

Together, these moves amount to the most serious declaration of intent by Myanmar's junta to hold an election since it ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Ankara has asked the opposition groups it has supported in the north to enlist in the new Syrian state army and hopes the armed groups in the south ...