More than 300 million people in Iran and beyond celebrate the ancient holiday. It’s tied to the spring equinox and has roots in the Persian Empire. Here’s what to know.

There's a skydiving center, Lodi Parachute Center, located in California, where 28 people have died since 1985. And the owner says he doesn't keep track of the number of deaths.

In some regions of the world, such as the Caucasus and Bulgaria, populations boast extraordinary longevity. One of the ...

By David L. Phillips The government of Azerbaijan heralds a peace agreement normalizing relations with Armenia. But the deal ...

The hard truth is that the Caucasus doesn’t reward rigid alliances. As Azerbaijan’s spat with Russia shows, even close ...

The rival South Caucasus neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan look set to finalize a historic peace deal after agreeing on the final text of a treaty that would end more than three decades of hostilities.

People on the streets of Yerevan and Baku, the capitals of Armenia and Azerbaijan, reacted to news that the text of a peace ...

Police said Maldonado, who was masked, smashed the window of a parked car while two people were in the backseat. After the suspect entered the car, one of the people in the backseat managed to get ...

Daddy Yankee married his high school sweetheart Mireddys González in 1995. They announced their divorce in December 2024 Daddy Yankee and his high school sweetheart Mireddys González are going ...

The former partner of the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili, Giorgi Bachiashvili, left Georgia in a special hiding place in a car. He left for Armenia on a Russian ...

To write a coherent account of the peoples of the Caucasus in 500 pages, even for an author with fluent Russian, is probably impossible. This is especially so when focusing on the Circassians and ...

Kazakhstan had the highest fatality rate of any state in Central Asia and the Caucasus with 129 per million people in 2024. Local observers say a wide variety of factors contribute to the high ...