The five ‘Stans’, independent nations since 1991, are influenced by their neighbours, but distinctive and fascinating.

Russia has advanced around Pokrovsk for many months, but has so far failed to entirely encircle or seize control of the city.

We tracked down a lost U.S. military fort from the Indian Wars era using an old map, and what we found is pure Wild West history. Located in the West Texas desert near El Paso, Fort Stockton was once ...

Set in southern Europe in Spain's Almería province is one of the weirdest anomalies in nature—a desert! Known as the Tabernas ...