The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, specifically called upon freed slaves to enlist in the Union cause.

As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia prepares to host African leaders at a summit, a collapsed grain deal and the uncertain fate of Wagner mercenaries have cast a shadow. By Declan Walsh and Paul ...

At some point the war in Ukraine will end, and when it does, the resulting influx of mercenaries will send shockwaves through Africa. As the current conflict grinds toward its grim one-year ...

While Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland marks the official start of World War II, one of the major on-ramps to war was the Italian invasion of Ethiopia four years earlier. "This introduced fascism's ...

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As the Iran war intensifies, governments across Africa are watching the unfolding crisis with growing unease. Conflicts in the Gulf rarely remain confined to the region, and the economic shockwaves ...

“It’s no longer debatable,” scholars Hal Brands and John Lewis Gaddis wrote in Foreign Affairs in October 2021, “that the United States and China . . . are entering their own new cold war.” The ...