The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

Globally, the climate crisis is also a human rights crisis. Dealing with environmental degradation and the climate crisis in ...

Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was “deputy caliph” of the militant group and as “one of the most dangerous ...

The killing comes as the group has been reconstituting in Syria, carrying out more attacks than at any time since it lost ...