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Maps designed as part of a holiday campaign either included or excluded disputed territories, such as Crimea and the Kuril Islands.

Ruqia Hassan was a philosophy student at Aleppo University before the war and shared details about life under ISIS' harsh rule.

The ship was believed to be en route to Syria, where Russia has continued an intense military campaign against rebel groups.

The country has launched an investigation into what prompted the Dec. 23 outage, which left tens of thousands without power.

The grid was last updated in 2011 and this will be the first time that an element will be named in Asia.

Did you know the kings were named Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar?

With over 9,000 dead, Ukraine is again calling for the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to the Donbass region.

About 64 percent of Americans rated Bill Clinton’s presidency favorably in 2014.

A cyberattack from Turkey hit Russia’s communications minister as experts say the Turkish economy stands to lose $10 billion as sanctions continue.

According to Russia's RIA Novosti, Moscow is open to playing mediator to settle discord between the two Middle Eastern countries following the execution of a top Shiite cleric.

A U.K.-based group called Bellingcat said that it has identified the Russian soldiers allegedly involved in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine.

The Japanese leader has been trying to improve relations with Moscow, but the latter's involvement in several international crises has caused delays.

After Russia banned food from Ukraine, Kiev responded to Moscow with a similar measure of its own.

Shiite-Sunni tensions in the Middle East exploded into violent rioting this weekend after a Shiite cleric was put to death by Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia.

A new national-security assessment is a sign of how relations between Russia and the West have worsened in recent years.

About 3 million people traveled to the country in 2015, representing a decline of just 3 percent from 2014.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to transform the Turkish presidency from a ceremonial title to an executive position.

The supersonic interceptor aircraft Mikoyan MiG-31 went out of production in 1994.

The Russian finance ministry said Thursday that Kiev failed to pay off its debt before a Dec. 31 deadline.

On the last day of 2015, the Kremlin listed former Soviet republics and extremist groups as posing possible security concerns in the new year.

Kremlin officials have not responded to Ukraine's allegations that Russian hackers knocked out electricity in the country.