Almost two years of sectarian fighting in the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, has killed thousands of Christians and Muslims. The chain of islands is about 1,600 miles northeast of Jakarta, the capital.

But the island was, in fact, a driver of global history for many centuries, as will be evident to anyone who sets eyes on the ...

Host Bob Edwards talks to reporter Chris McCall about the turmoil in the Indonesian Spice Islands, formally known as the Moluccas. Indonesia's military said it would replace most of the troops in ...

Aromatic holiday spices hail from exotic locations such as western India, the West Indies and the Molucca Islands of southeastern Asia, according to "Spices: Exotic Flavors & Medicines," an ...

Cloves are native to the Moluccas (Spice Islands) and are the dried, unopened flowers of the tropical evergreen tree Syzygium aromaticum (sometimes listed as Eugenia caryophyllus). The name clove is ...

Years ago the Spice Islands was the name given to what we now know as the Moluccas or the Maluku Islands. There are in the neighborhood of 1,000 islands (not the ancestral home of the dressing of ...

The dried, ground spice found in most kitchen cabinets begins as the seed of the Myristica fragrans tree, indigenous to the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, of Indonesia.

Traditional Christmas and winter food and drinks such as mulled wine, eggnog, ginger bread and fruitcakes often call for more than a dash of what Jamie Oliver calls “festive spices” – cloves ...

Far from the usual tourist trails, on a small island in the Northern Moluccas, lies a place of extraordinary beauty: Nabucco’s Spice Island Resort. Nestled between dense tropical jungle and a powdery ...