This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

Each Memorial Day, Americans honor the service members who gave their lives for their country. From the nation's founding to its modern military operations overseas, hundreds of thousands of U.S.

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...

Dick Cheney, who as vice president was architect of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, embraced his critics' image as Darth Vader ...

Hamas said it had found the body of a hostage who had been held by Palestinian militants in Shejaia, an eastern suburb of ...