civil war

People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023.
Displacement
‘I no longer have a dream’: Sudan has the largest displacement of children in the world
Democratic Republic of Congo Defense Forces gather in the North Kivu province village of Mukondi, Thursday March 9, 2023.
Critical State
Rebel reliance: Part I
Syrian Democratic Forces soldiers hold a position in Hassakeh, northeast Syria, Jan. 27, 2022.
Conflict & Justice
A prison battle in Syria puts the spotlight on the plight of child detainees
Head of the Presidential Council of Libya Mohamed al-Manfi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah attend a press conference on Libya in Paris
Conflict
Elections in Libya should be part of a larger process toward peace, analyst says
A building is still riddled with war damage, on the former frontline of the Lebanese Civil War, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
Critical State
Checking in on democratic peace: Part I
Three men are shown wearing traditional Saudi headdress and garments while seated at a long white table.
COVID-19
Yemen pledging drive hopes to raise $2.4 billion to save aid ops as coronavirus spreads
A group of military men stand in a line with their weapons.
Critical State
Analysis: Who joins rebel armies?
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)
Women fully covered in black carry jerrycans after they filled them up with drinking water from a charity tap, amid a cholera outbreak, in Sanaa. Graffiti on wall behind them reads "USA kills Yemeni people."
Conflict
‘We don’t have leverage.’ Why the US can’t stop the Yemen war.
A protester holds a national flag as a bank branch, housed in the Supreme Court of Justice, burns during a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, June 12, 2017.
Conflict
Venezuela is on the brink of civil war. Here’s how its neighbors could stop it.
Loury Rasheed
Conflict
She missed five years of school because of the Syrian war. She won’t let that happen to her little brother.
Staffan de Mistura
Conflict
There’s ‘higher potential’ for achieving peace in Syria, UN envoy says
Saber Askar in East Porterville, California
Conflict
For one Yemeni American, the long wait to bring his family to safety
Syria
Conflict
If Assad stayed, could Syria ever rebuild from war?
Aleppo
Conflict
The battle of Aleppo is nearing the end, a ‘total collapse’
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
A young boy peaks from behind his tent at a camp for displaced people in Hajjah, Yemen. He and his family have been forced from their homes twice because of airstrikes in the nine months that a coalition led by Saudi Arabia, and supported by the United St
Conflict
Yemen is now the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
Confederate Flag
Culture
Is there a way to ‘re-brand’ the American South for the 21st Century?
burundi
Conflict
Fresh from Burundi to America — this man is watching war break out from afar
One of 2,000 photos given to doctoral student Joseph Ho that show life in China.
Culture
Photos of a forgotten China drop in one man’s lap
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
A ration party of the Royal Irish Rifles in a communication trench during the Battle of the Somme.
Conflict & Justice
Wars don’t end the way you think they do
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
Even before the chemical attack, the Zamalka neighborhood of Damascus suffered government bombardment.
Conflict & Justice
Weapons inspectors have nothing to offer residents of destroyed Damascus neighborhood
Sri Lanka declares end to civil war
Conflict & Justice
How wars end In Sri Lanka