Native Americans and blacks fought on both sides during the American Revolution. Native American participation began in the earliest days of the conflict when, in March of 1775, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress accepted an offer from the...

Loyalists were British North American colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the American Revolution. They were also called Tories, King's Men, or Royalists. Those Loyalists who left and resettled in Canada called themselves...

Fatah loyalists who fled the Hamas takeover of Gaza huddled Friday in the lobby of the best hotel in Ramallah, chain-smoking, drinking Turkish coffee _ and trying to come to terms with their new lives in exile.They fielded phone calls from relatives in Gaza and...

Haitians danced in the streets to celebrate the overthrow of dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, heckling the tubby, boyish tyrant as he was driven to the airport in a black limousine and flown into exile in 1986.Most Haitians hoped the rapacious strongman known as "Baby Doc" had...

Government loyalists appeared to sweep local elections in Belarus, according to preliminary results released Monday, as President Alexander Lukashenko retained a firm grip over the former Soviet nation. Belarus opposition and human rights activists denounced Sunday's vote as rigged, and the United States and the...

Legions of supporters of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto converged on Karachi for her planned homecoming Thursday from eight years in self-exile and return to the center stage of Pakistan's volatile politics.Brushing off fears of an attack by Islamic militants, she vowed Wednesday to restore...