Asharq Al Awsat Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving tourism, which they say could provide a much-needed boost to ...

Newark was a very important location during the English Civil War in the 1640s, as King Charles I used it as a key Royalist stronghold and communications centre. The Nottinghamshire town was besieged ...

some view it as the spark that ignited the Civil War, which ultimately led to the end of slavery as an institution in the ...

Syria’s civil war obliterated their neighborhoods ... The mosque is being rebuilt while most of the surrounding buildings remain in ruins. This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National ...

As many as 20% of Civil War soldiers were younger than 18 ... When the battles ended their homes and farms were often in ruins. Their fields and even their yards were littered with rotting ...