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This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

The flag of the Soviet navy now proudly flies over ... As the German invaders rushed toward the oilfields of the Caucasus, Gorshkov became expert at amphibious operations, plucking trapped Soviet ...

It has now been almost a year and a half since Azerbaijan invaded Nagorno-Karabakh and expelled its indigenous 120,000 ...

Ukraine holds trillions of dollars worth of rare earth elements, which are critical for the modern high-tech economy.

For decades the hippie enclave Arcata has flown three flags at a Veterans Memorial in a plaza at the center of town: one for California, one for the United States, and one for earth. But over the ...

A rumor circulating online in early February 2025 claimed U.S. President Donald Trump's administration replaced the standard 50-star U.S. flag with a nine-star flag on government websites.

A flag icon with nine stars stacked horizontally that sits atop most federal government websites has been used since 2017. It was not added after President Donald Trump’s second term began.

Data from the Institute for the Study of War and AEI's Critical Threats Project shows the Russian advance and seizure of ...

He went on to highlight Iran's policy of opposition to any changes to geographical borders in the Caucasus region and intervention of the foreign powers in that region. "Changing the borders of the ...