Between 1989 and 2003, more than 50,000 children were enlisted in the Liberian and Sierra Leonean civil wars. Lives were torn ...

Established in 1945, the United Nations (UN) remains the world's most comprehensive multilateral institution, designed to promote peace, security, and international cooperation in the aftermath of ...

By the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861, he was one of the largest coffee farmers in Liberia—and he hoped that this new country, to which several thousand Black Americans had fled to ...

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — An international war crimes court upheld the conviction and 50-year sentence of former Liberian President ... country’s 11-year civil war, which left an ...

“There’s a lot of purpose to what we do,” Lopez said. This year’s batch of nine veterans included the remains of a Civil War soldier, William O’Neal and wife Elizabeth O’Neal. With no ...

At a Memorial Day ceremony, hundreds of people honored their sacrifices with an outdoor mass and Civil War era music. “I think it’s the best way we can help represent what they did,” said ...

Carrying along rainwear, the fans sported every single kind of Guns N’ Roses T-shirt to ever exist, and were treated to hits like Bad Obsession, Live and Let Die, Better, Civil War and Sweet ...

The public-service billboards along Liberia's roadways only begin to hint at the magnitude of challenges facing a nation trying to right itself after 14 years of civil war that ended in 2003.

The group, in a statement issued this week, cautioned members of the Inter-ministerial Concession Committee (IMCC) to resist any “praise-driven” negotiation mindset reminiscent of Liberia’s ...

He told a US Senate hearing that the government, "given the challenges they're facing, are maybe weeks -- not many months -- away from potential collapse and a full-scale civil war of epic ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday that Syria may be weeks away from plunging into another civil war or collapsing altogether. Rubio, who met with top Syrian officials last week ...

WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns that Syria could be weeks away from civil war, days after he met with the country’s transitional leaders. “It is our assessment that ...