The taxes started at 20 cents a gallon and soared to 70 cents by 1864 and $1.50 by 1865, the year the Civil War ended. In 1866, they were a whopping $2 (the chart shows a $2 low price for that ...

The cost from damage to infrastructure and economic losses in Yemen's civil war is more than $14 billion so far, according to a confidential report seen by Reuters that highlights the effort ...