A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck central Myanmar, with an epicenter 15km (10 miles) north-west of the city of Sagaing. A 6.4 magnitude aftershock followed closely behind. Early reports ...

Collapsing buildings are the biggest cause of death during earthquakes. How should buildings they be constructed to prevent deaths and injuries?

Central Myanmar was struck by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, with tremors reaching Thailand and south-west China. Why are these ...

Yet to understand how Turkey got here, and what Erdogan ’s current challenges mean for the global network of other strongmen ...

DAVAO CITY—A global positioning system (GPS)-linked bus in Lasang heads off to the next station in Bunawan—around 3 kilometers away—to fetch passengers queuing up at the station, which has a big ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government has aggravated already tense relations between Turkey ...

Like the Alawites, the Kurds constitute roughly 10 percent of majority-Arab and Sunni Muslim Syria's population. Both communities have a sizeable presence in neighboring Turkey as well ...

Without global support, millions of Syrian refugees and displaced persons will see their dream of return ruined, warns Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey's top diplomat travelled to Damascus on Thursday as Ankara said foreign fighters must be expelled from Syria, after an agreement spearheaded by the war-torn country's new ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had already met with Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus in December — - Turkey's top diplomat travelled to Damascus on Thursday as Ankara said foreign ...

Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed ... But Al-Awak, a constitutional law expert who teaches at Mardin Artuklu University in Turkey, also said that the temporary constitution includes ...