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Woman in crowd looking at camera
Global Politics
Liberia was founded by people enslaved in the US. Advocates say the US should not end an immigration program that helps them.
The Civil War: Then and Now
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
Civil War Re-enactors
Arts, Culture & Media
Forward, March
Arts, Culture & Media
E. L. Doctorow
Arts, Culture & Media
American Icons: <em>Gone with the Wind</em>
Arts, Culture & Media
The Power of the Pen(cil)
Saber Askar in East Porterville, California
Conflict
For one Yemeni American, the long wait to bring his family to safety
Fortuné gets up at 4 a.m. to prepare homemade spaghetti, which he starts selling at his stand at 6 a.m.
Development
Fortuné’s big dreams and small spaghetti business
El Salvador's defense minister, General Rafael Humberto Larios, speaks during a news conference in San Salvador in a 1990 file photo. Larios and eight other former Salvadoran soldiers were arrested in 2011 for suspected involvement in the 1989 killing of
Conflict
How justice for slain Americans took a backseat to Cold War politics
The passenger terminal at Tripoli's international airport after recent attacks.
Conflict
Three years after its civil war, Libya is on the brink of another
Internally displaced people Somalians gather outside their makeshift shelters in the Hodan district in southern Mogadishu to listen to proceeding of a 2012 parliamentary election.
Conflict & Justice
A BBC program is reuniting Somali families torn apart by conflict
Women hold their ration cards during food distribution in Minkaman, Lakes State, June 26, 2014. About 94,000 people have sought refuge in Minkaman after fighting broke out in neighboring states, according to the International Organization for Migration.
Conflict & Justice
The world’s youngest country turns three — but there’s not much to celebrate
In this Facebook posting, Ayoub and his high school friend each hold up one finger, a sign many jihadists use to show they're willing to die for god.
Conflict & Justice
Getting this man’s brother back alive from Syria would be ‘nothing short of a miracle’
Residents wait to receive food aid distributed by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at the besieged al-Yarmouk camp, south of Damascus
Conflict & Justice
Yarmouk is a man-made disaster zone, right inside the Syrian capital of Damascus
Children sit with their belongings as they wait to be evacuated from a besieged area of Homs February 12, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
Aid workers scramble to assist people evacuated from Homs during a shaky ceasefire
Syrian rebel fighters
Conflict & Justice
A new Frontline documentary covers the ‘second front’ in Syria between rebels and jihadists
Syrian refugees children
Conflict & Justice
Syrian refugees move into Bulgaria, after losing hope of returning home
An Afghan girl named Spozhmai is held in a border police station in the southeastern part of Helmand province, Afghanistan.
Conflict & Justice
A 9-year-old explains how she ended up wearing a suicide bomb vest in Afghanistan
Union soldiers entrenched along the west bank of the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Conflict & Justice
How wars end part II: the American Civil War
The High Price of Colombia’s Drug Trade