Syria's port city of Tartus gave Russia a naval base in the Mediterranean for more than five decades but the downfall of Bashar al-Assad to rebels led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, has upended ...

Italy is a south-central European country, whose boot-shaped borders extend into the Mediterranean Sea. The country ... and houses two countries within its borders – the Vatican and San ...

The sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean ... human pressure on this sea is magnified each summer with the influx of holiday makers. Western civilisation developed around these shores but ...