As German forces retreated through Yugoslavia and Greece in late 1944, the Balkans erupted. Former allies switched sides, partisans struck from every mountain, and Bulgaria and Romania turned against ...

Thousands of kilometers of Balkan rivers have been damaged in recent years, a study published Wednesday found, as hydropower development, dams and sediment extraction drive a "steady erosion" of some ...

In the dead of night on July 6, 1943, U.S. and Japanese warships collided in the narrow waters of the Solomon Islands.

An aerial photograph of Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus shows excavations of two of the city’s industrial quarters.(Courtesy Peter M. Fischer) More than 40 years ago, a Turkish sponge diver named Mehmet ...