Few foreign missions in Kyiv appear as dreary as Syria’s embassy. It is squeezed into a squat apartment block in Lukyanivka, a neighbourhood repeatedly targeted by Russian attacks. The façade of the ...

The magnitude of an earthquake depends on how far a rupture travels along a fault line before it stops. For the first time, we have now directly observed how a large earthquake comes to a halt. By ...

A strong earthquake shook western Turkey on Monday, the country's emergency response agency said. Media reports said some buildings sustained damage, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

Since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Damascus has seized on the ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Syria’s interim government has requested Turkey’s support to strengthen its defense capabilities, Turkish officials said Wednesday, following sectarian violence over the past two ...

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Ambassador Tom Barrack is pushing back after backlash over remarks seen as equating Israel with Hezbollah, insisting his comments reflect "realism" and not a change in U.S. policy.

Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, has called for a new pipeline linking Iraq's Basra oil fields and Turkey's Ceyhan Port to reduce reliance on the Strait of Hormuz.

Tokyo — A powerful earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast Monday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) to issue a tsunami alert for a wide section of coastline, though waves of ...

A magnitude 2.8 earthquake struck near Granite Bay on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake hit at 6:35 p.m. about 2 miles west-southwest of Granite Bay. It had a depth of about 2.6 miles ...

A 4.0 magnitude earthquake occurred in the Missouri Bootheel on April 23. The tremor was felt by some residents in West Tennessee and as far south as Mississippi. The earthquake's epicenter was ...