Firefighters in western Turkey have discovered the body of an elderly man after extinguishing a wildfire near a village.

Firefighters raced Thursday to contain wildfires that forced thousands to flee holiday resorts on the southern Greek island ...

Greek authorities ordered precautionary evacuations due to a wildfire near the port of Rafina, about 30 kilometres east of ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

In 1947, the ‘Agreement on Aid to Turkey’ was signed. With this agreement, the training and equipment of the army would ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to cancel his attendance at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in the Hague, a source with direct knowledge said on Monday.

Olives were a low-stress crop for millennia, but Greece shows how climate change has made the harvest much less ...

The ancient Egyptian potter lived about 4,500 years ago. It's hoped his DNA will open the way to a better understanding of the country's genetic history.

Maao said that in the Yazidi story, God rewarded this angel (which they believe was a spirit called Melek Tawûs) for his ...

Assyrian people are among the oldest indigenous communities of Syria and Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia). Descendants of a rich and ...

Thousands of tourists, hotel workers and residents have been evacuated from the Ierapetra area on Crete’s southern coast.