Declassified cold-war spy satellite images have thrown new light on the workings of the Roman empire by revealing hundreds of previously undiscovered forts, with dramatic…
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‘Like a blowtorch’: Mediterranean on fire as blazes spread across nine countries
Wildfires were burning in at least nine countries across the Mediterranean on Tuesday as blazes spread in Croatia, Italy and Portugal, with thousands of firefighters…
View More ‘Like a blowtorch’: Mediterranean on fire as blazes spread across nine countries‘Part of the same land’: Lebanese and Syrians join forces to fight wildfires
Some of the trees in Akkar province are more than 100 years old, says Mohammed Abdallah. A refugee from the war just over the border…
View More ‘Part of the same land’: Lebanese and Syrians join forces to fight wildfires‘Apocalyptic skies’: the dust storms devastating Gulf states and Syria
Blankets of thick gritty haze and ominous orange skies since early April have sent thousands to hospitals and resulted in at least four deaths in…
View More ‘Apocalyptic skies’: the dust storms devastating Gulf states and SyriaCyprus prepares for Mediterranean oil spill from Syrian power plant
Turkish Cypriot authorities have taken emergency action to stop an oil slick blamed on a faulty power plant in Syria from wreaking environmental havoc along…
View More Cyprus prepares for Mediterranean oil spill from Syrian power plantSite in Syria could be world’s oldest war memorial, study finds
A burial mound in northern Syria has been identified by researchers as perhaps the world’s oldest known war memorial. The site, known as the White…
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