Two centuries after the Barbary Wars, America is once again fighting a war overseas to protect its shipping, as well as that ...

It existed in the mountains and deserts of North Africa’s Barbary Coast, from Morocco to Egypt. The Barbary lion was previously considered a separate lion subspecies until 2017. According to the ...

Beginning in 1784, raiders from these statelets along the Barbary coast, known as the Barbary ... transits the Red Sea instead to sail around Africa, lengthening shipping timetables and increasing ...