Multimedia: Photo Essays

Stalin's two-story Abkhazia vacation home, known as the Mysra dacha, sits at the end of a twisting 14-kilometer road amidst flowering magnolia, honeysuckle bushes and towering trees. The...

Several thousand people gathered throughout the day in Istanbul to protest against Israel's deadly raid on ships bound for Gaza on May 31. Waving Palestinian flags, bearing green headbands and...

Xinaliq, a high-mountain village in Azerbaijan's portion of the Caucasus mountain range, is its own little world. Not much is known about the origins of the settlement, but its roughly 800 present...

Heavy rains this month caused flooding in 20 villages surrounding the Kura River, Azerbaijan's main water artery, which enters the country from Georgia, where it is called the Mtkvari. The river...