The 38-year-old doctoral student at Princeton was studying social political movements in Iraq when she was taken to a torture ...

Poachers typically plant bamboo poles at intervals in soft sand, with nets stretched across them to trap low flying birds.

Russia’s security service has claimed it foiled a plot by Ukraine to assassinate a high-ranking Kremlin official inside ...

In the remote taiga near the Sea of Japan, Siberian tigers move like shadows through snow-covered landscapes, guardians of ...

Like every year, large flocks of Siberian seagulls have begun arriving in the Ganga river in the Saidpur area, covering thousands of kilometers on their annual migration.

The major explosion in eastern Russia derailed a freight train on the Trans-Siberian railway, disrupting one of Moscow's ...

For more than a century, forced relocations have marked some of the most troubling chapters of Russian and Soviet governance.

In considering the many effects of the war in Ukraine on the Russian economy, few suspected that fuel shortages would be one of them. After all, Russia is an oil-rich country whose energy ...

The battle to save the magnificent but endangered Amur tiger detailed in Jonathan Slaght's Tigers Between Empires is an inspiring look at what collaboration across borders can achieve, finds Adam Weym ...

Ukraine said Wednesday it had assassinated a Russian officer responsible for war crimes, targeting him with a car bomb inside Russia. Veniamin Mazzherin, who died at the weekend, was the deputy ...