The military war was between the IDF and the jihadist armies that attacked the Jewish state, one from its south, one from its ...

Russia has lost about twice as many men to death and serious injury as Ukraine. But the trends favor the Kremlin.

More than 9 million Ethiopian children are currently out of school. They are caught in the crossfire of armed conflicts, ...

"Some residents in Awash and Dulecha districts are reluctant to evacuate, particularly pastoralist communities concerned about their livestock and property," reads the note from the United Nations ...

A volcanic eruption has struck Ethiopia's central Mount Dofan, a region that has recently experienced frequent minor tremors, according to local media reports on Friday. The tremors in the Awash ...

This is the vicious circle we’re caught in, a chain of endless bloodshed and violence that feeds on mistrust and perpetuates ...

Tal Afar, about 55km (35 miles) to the west of Mosul, was always going to be next on the "to do" list for Iraqi forces. Just as the fighting for Mosul moved from east to west over the course of ...

Here, Russia isn't fighting a campaign of attrition, it's waging a war of oblivion. And, for the moment on this front, it is winning. Getty Images Smoke rises from a bombed oil refinery in ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was like a scene conjured by a Hollywood special effects shop. In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia ...