More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

Google Maps will change the name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America when the US government officially makes the change ...

Google says it will update its popular maps service to reflect any official name changes US President Donald Trump pushes ...

There are eight countries around the world that are known to have nuclear weapons, and there are fears that Iran could join ...

Additionally, Moscow says its forces have captured more territory around the flashpoint city of Toretsk in the eastern Donetsk region (highlighted in the map above). Toretsk is a long-held ...

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"It will be a signal that it is not for Russia to decide who should be in Nato and who should not, but for the United States of America ... a Unesco World Heritage site, seriously damaging ...

While Sky News could not independently verify Russia's claim of having taken the village, battlefield maps published early ... vis-a-vis Ukraine and the United States," ISW analysts say.

The Trump administration is moving to merge USAID with the State Department and, while some aid functions will remain intact, ...

An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside ...

Law enforcement authorities in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday announced the arrest of a suspected arms trafficker who is accused of shipping weapons from the United States to sell in Russia. According to ...