The Sheldon Prairie Museum has many different collections -- in fact, about half the basement is dedicated to military ...

At 29, the Scranton-born soldier succumbed to injuries received in battle. Creeping up on nearly two centuries later, the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Association of Scranton and Civil War ...

In 2023, Pennsylvania issued a law declaring March 29 as Vietnam War Veterans Day. Gov. Josh Shapiro’s law coincided with the 50th anniversary in 2023 of the United States’ withdrawal from ...

Then again, assault of the enemy infantry formations by column was less common in American Civil War battles in contrast to the Napoleonic battles. The American commanders liked to march in column and ...

South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, fell into a bloody civil war soon after gaining independence in 2011, as forces aligned with Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fought those loyal to Machar ...

Armed forces in Sudan’s ongoing civil war are perpetrating systematic sexual violence against young children, with one-year-olds the youngest survivors of rape, according to a new report from ...

This year, the U.S. Army Infantry Branch celebrates 250 years since its creation by the 2nd Continental Congress. Several ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

Nicholas of Company E of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment ... acting as prisoner-of-war camps. The members of the 47th had served garrison duty there before.

Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.