Will classical music still have a place in Syria? First concert since Assad’s ousting held
Syria’s national symphony orchestra performed for free in an unheated hall, reflections of the dire economic toll of the ...
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What’s Rwanda’s interest in the eastern DR Congo?
DRC is a member of the SADC and the East Africa Community, or EAC, while Rwanda is an EAC member.
Who's pulling the strings in the DR Congo crisis?
The seizure by M23 rebels of vast tracts of land in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has triggered a ...
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Goma dispatch: Mass graves and reprisal fears as M23 seize DR Congo city
The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...
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True Tales Revisited: Melee at the Meetinghouse
The Federalist party made great preparations and reserved the meetinghouse as the place for their celebration. An eminent ...
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Harriet Tubman led Civil War military raids as well as her better-known slave rescues
While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...
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In Syria, the fighting is over, but a resource-rich province is left in limbo
That has irked Turkey, which supported the rebels now controlling Syria. Turkey considers the SDF to be an offshoot of the ...
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox Court House, Representative Thaddeus Stevens received a surprising but surely ...
‘Days of Mass Burials Ahead’ as Congo Mourns Its Dead in Goma
Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...
Ceasefire in east Congo appears to crumble as rebels take another town
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, ...
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Holy Cow History | The flag-bearer for brotherly love
Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...