The Latest Breaking News from Civil War

Manipur: why is there conflict and how is the government responding?

As violence between the Meitei and Kuki communities continues in north-east Indian, campaigners criticise the authorities’ response and both sides warn of civil war

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2023

Myanmar's generals unveil giant Buddha statue as they seek to win hearts and minds during civil war

The military-controlled government of strife-torn Myanmar has unveiled a new giant statue of a sitting Buddha that is scheduled to be consecrated on Aug. 1

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2023

Trump DOJ letter signals "ironic twist"

DOJ cited a post-Civil War law targeting white Southerners including KKK who deprived freed slaves of voting rights

Salon · Jul 20, 2023

ICC says investigating alleged new war crimes in Sudan's Darfur

The International Criminal Court opens a new war crimes probe into Sudan's civil war as the UN accuses RSF paramilitary forces in Darfur of killing and dumping the bodies of at least 87 people. Also, South Africa's top court upholds an earlier ruling that former president Jacob Zuma should return…

France 24 · Jul 13, 2023

Native giraffes are once again roaming in Angola

Native giraffes are once again roaming a national park in Angola, decades after they were driven to extinction in the country, most likely by its long-running civil war. Fourteen young giraffes were transported to Iona National Park from a game reserve in Namibia last week. Some Angolan giraffes, which are a subspecies…

The Week · Jul 13, 2023

'Idiots,' 'criminals' and 'scum' -- nasty politics highest in US since the Civil War

Joe Biden, “together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits and Marxists, tried to destroy American democracy.”

The Conversation · Jul 10, 2023

Kentucky man finds over 700 Civil War-era coins buried in his cornfield

A man unearthed a huge hoard of Civil War-era gold and silver coins on his Kentucky farm.

LiveScience · Jul 10, 2023

‘Foreigners on our own land’: ethnic clashes threaten to push India’s Manipur state into civil war

More than 100 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in ongoing violence that risks cleaving the state in two

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2023

Guatemala: Justice system victim of government's authoritarian drift

Back in 2015, Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina was forced to resign before being eventually found guilty of fraud and criminal conspiracy. His downfall seemed proof that impunity for corruption was not inevitable in a country plagued by 40 years of civil war. Perez was the prize catch of the…

France 24 · Jul 7, 2023

City of Richmond Receives Artifacts Dating Back to Historic Civil War Battle

Artifacts dating back to the Civil War’s Battle of Richmond in 1862 are being loaned to the city from a Madison County man.

WEKU · Jul 6, 2023