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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — The removal of Civil War-era monuments is underway after almost two years of calls by Mayor Mitch Landrieu (D) to remove four that he deemed “racist”.

The City of Charlottesville, Virginia, has decided to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that has stood in a city park for nearly 100 years, reports say.

Belgian historian David Engels claims a civil war in the next 20 years is inevitable as he sees parallels between Europe and the fall of the Roman Republic.

During the Friday “Good Morning America” broadcast, ABC political analyst Matthew Dowd said the country today is “akin” to where it was at the start of the Civil War. “I think we’re obviously in unprecedented times with a lot of things

Hillary Clinton specifically referred to the Civil War, suggesting that the country faced a similar threat of divisiveness from Donald Trump.

Once again Donald Trump revealed his true inner racist self by going to a famous Civil War battlefield in a nod to the spectacular turning point in that epic war.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – A case which called out the hypocrisy of the City of New Orleans’ plan to remove four Civil War-related monuments but not to remove one honoring Democratic President Andrew Jackson was thrown out by a federal judge this week.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – An organization aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement is now threatening the City of New Orleans publicly, defacing historical monuments and demanding they be torn down.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – A group aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement is threatening to physically tear down New Orleans, Louisiana’s most famous French Quarter monument depicting President Andrew Jackson on a horse.

A French scholar of Islam has a dire warning for Europe, claiming that the third generation of young Muslim men are being increasingly radicalised and may lead the continent into a civil war.

TEL AVIV – A six-year-old Syrian girl who was successfully treated for a hematological blood disease at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center was discharged on Tuesday and sent back to Syria after an emotional farewell party at the hospital was held in her honor.

Troops loyal to the U.S.-backed government of South Sudan have reportedly embarked on a rampage of rape and murder, targeting civilians — a testament to the mayhem that has spread across the world’s youngest country, the birth of which the Obama administration helped midwife.

JAFFA – President Barack Obama is responsible for the death of a million people in Syria and Iraq, and were it not for Israel’s existence, Iran – buoyed by U.S. policies – would have destroyed the entire Middle East, Syrian opposition figure Issam Zeitoun told Breitbart Jerusalem in an exclusive interview.

TEL AVIV – Evan McMullin, a former undercover CIA agent who announced he will run as an independent in the U.S. presidential election in November, studied in Israel during his undergraduate degree.

Federal officers seized 72 pounds of methamphetamine that was being smuggled from Reynosa, Mexico into Texas. The drugs were hidden in a Ford pickup truck being driving by a Mexican national.

The United States military in Africa has deployed 47 troops described by President Barack Obama as “equipped for combat” to protect American personnel and facilities in Juba, the capital of civil-war-ravaged South Sudan, the White House and U.S. Africa Command have announced.

The head of France’s intelligence agency has called on his government to allocate resources to the surveillance of “far right” organisations, warning the country could be on the verge of civil war thanks to public unrest over the handling of Islamic

The people facing off against police on highways in Atlanta and Oakland may never have had any kind of negative experience with police — indeed, they share an implicit trust that the police will let them protest, even illegally — and yet they are forging a new political identity that can create its own reality.

In the wake of two separate fatal police shootings this week, New York-based rapper Joey Badass says the tragic incidents are part of a United States government plot to incite “uprising and rebellion” that will give federal agents an excuse to kill black people.

Author Rod Gragg, whose books include By the Hand of Providence: How Faith Shaped the American Revolution; Forged in Faith: How Faith Shaped the Birth of the Nation; and Eyewitness Gettysburg: The Civil War’s Greatest Battle, joined Friday morning’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon to talk about the enduring significance of Gettysburg and how the battle has become indelibly associated with the Fourth of July holiday.

Gettysburg National Military Park historian John Heiser, recounted for Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon the story of how the courageous young Union Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cushing was finally awarded the Medal of Honor over 150 years after the Battle of Gettysburg thanks to the tenacity of one elderly woman.

Contents: Decoration Day; Germany and France commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Verdun; The Germany – France reconciliation – 1984; Red poppies in Flanders Field; Pacifism and the futility of war

On the eve of Memorial Day, Civil War historians and battlefield preservationists were alarmed to discover someone had illegally dug numerous holes on the grounds of the Petersburg National Civil War Battlefield Park. The criminals were apparently hunting for relics buried long ago during some of America’s most trying days.

Arlington National Cemetery historian Chris Warren joined Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Friday with a timely review of Arlington’s history for Memorial Day.

The protest organizer at an Arabic Immersion Magnet School says it is ironic that the seventh largest school district in the U.S. is ignoring the Arabic culture’s “long and ongoing culture of enslavement” while stripping names off of schools of anyone connected with the Confederacy or slavery (and spending millions to do so).

HOUSTON, Texas — Changing the name of just one middle school in Texas will cost Houston taxpayers almost $500,000. Some Houston taxpayers are not happy about the cost of the name change, and some former students, parents of students, and current students at the middle school are not happy about the name change either.

Around 600 members (pictured) of various European police and military forces have carried out a European Union (EU) funded training exercise, in preparation for major civil unrest and even war. The exercise took place in North Rhine-Westphalia on the 15th

The Saudi London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat recently published a column condemning Arab countries for failing to shoulder responsibility in alleviating the Syria crisis and instead waiting for the West to do the work.

A Bedford County, Virginia, high school sparked a student rally in support of the Confederate flag after administrators enforced a ban of the historic banner.

Syria has lost millions of citizens since the civil war started, but the last known American citizen in Damascus will not leave.

This Saturday, February 28, was the 156th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address, which was delivered at Cooper Union, in New York City. It was the speech that launched Lincoln to the White House in the election of 1860; it was the speech that paved the path for a newly-formed Republican Party to take the White House for the first time, buoyed by its identification with the boldest and most unmistakeable principles.

Governor Phil Bryant declared April to be Confederate Heritage Month, saying he hopes to encourage “reflection” on his state’s history.

The Russian government has promised to increase military cooperation with Iran as both countries continue to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Gangs of vigilantes have been roaming the streets of a northern British town for the last week following a violent attack on British children by Eastern European migrant kids at a local school. One resident has told Breitbart London “It’s

The Chinese government issued a joint statement with officials of Saudi Arabia in support of the Sunni government of Yemen under President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, days before President Xi Jinping is set to visit Iran, the main international support of the Shiite Houthi rebels.

A group whose goal is to promote Confederate history arranged for an airplane banner of the Confederate flag to fly over Florida’s state capital to protest a bill that would ban display of the flag on state property.