The past year brought deaths, regional conflict, indictments and more. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ends it having ...

Syria was thus a status symbol for the Kremlin. Putin, who sees Russia as a "great power" on par with the United States and ...

In 2003, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake levelled the ancient city of Bam in southeastern Iran, killing 28,000 people. In 2004, tsunamis triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean killed an estimated ...