Civilian Massacres

In the waning days of the Civil War, a grim episode unfolded on a dusty country road near Simpsonville, Kentucky. On a cold November afternoon in 1865, roughly twenty‑four Union soldiers—most of them men who had escaped slavery and were now fighting for the North—were ambushed by Confederate guerrillas and...

Ten months after rebels successfully ousted the long-standing Assad regime, the persistent and largely unchecked bloodshed has left many Syrians disillusioned, wondering if the years of brutality are truly behind them. Despite the initial optimism that followed the fall of the Assad regime, the reality on the ground paints a...