Prime Minister, Ian Smith, ...announced a ceasefire in Rhodesia’s guerilla war and the release of African political detainees as a prelude to a constitutional conference.

With it he officially freed all slaves within the states or parts ... The first of these was the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Colored Regiment, led by white officer Robert Gould Shaw.

Damascus 'freed' of Assad - live updates A family tragedy ... but there are dark clouds on the horizon for Syria It's over. Fifty-four years of brutal Assad dynasty rule has come to an end.

One of the leading causes of death worldwide, killing forty to fifty million people a year is abortion ... Not only that, but there is true joy in being freed from the self. It is so liberating to be ...

Syrian rebels have freed prisoners — including toddlers — from a notorious, jam-packed prison dubbed the “human slaughterhouse,” where the Assad regime allegedly used an “iron press ...

After rebel forces overran Damascus on Saturday, toppling the government of President Bashar al-Assad, thousands of prisoners stumbled out of Syria's nightmarish prisons, suddenly freed after ...

In perhaps Syria's most notorious prison, a rebel recorded the moment he pulled open doors for prisoners to be freed. As the women left their cells, a toddler could be seen walking the corridor.

A video verified by Reuters showed newly freed prisoners ran through the Damascus streets, holding up the fingers of both hands to show how many years they had been in prison, asking passers-by ...

In addition, the delegation was said to give the names of four hostages with US citizenship who did not fall into the previous category, but who would be freed. Discussions about who would be set ...

Bewildered and elated prisoners poured out of Syrian jails on Sunday, shouting with joy as they emerged from one of the world’s most notorious detention systems and walked to freedom following ...

The boy is one of thousands of prisoners freed by islamist rebels since their lightning offensive started on November 29. Assad was granted political asylum by Vladimir Putin on Sunday after rebels ...