The new authorities have made a conscious effort to calm the population — yet safety is not the same as stability.

Soap makers in the Syrian city of Aleppo have been in business for centuries and have survived civil war, sanctions and earthquakes. And now they are proud to carry on this unique tradition.

Damascus: The Syrian Civil Aviation Authority announced on Saturday that Aleppo International Airport will resume operations for air traffic starting next Tuesday, March 18. According to the ...

What began as protests against President Assad’s regime in 2011 quickly escalated into a full-scale war between the Syrian government—backed by Russia and Iran—and anti-government rebel ...

March 11 has been a tough day in the world’s history. On this day in 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused a nuclear accident in Japan. It was the second worst nuclear accident the ...

The largest active volcano in Washington state has been rocked by a series of earthquakes, putting experts on high alert. Mount Adams is a 12,000-foot-tall stratovolcano located in south-central ...

Trench off Hokkaido contains energy that could trigger a 9.0 earthquake According to researchers from Japan's Tohoku and Hokkaido universities and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and ...

As Japan marks the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated large areas of the country’s northeast in 2011, experts have warned that the seismic conditions in an underwater ...

An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale was felt on the island of São Miguel, in the eastern group of the Azores, according to the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA). In a ...

At 2:46 p.m. on Tuesday, Japan observed a moment of silence to mark the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that left more than 22,000 people dead or missing ...