One year ago this week, Joe Biden was president. I was in Doha, Qatar, negotiating with Israel and Hamas to finalize a ceasefire and hostage release deal. The incoming Trump team worked closely with ...

For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian hillside has defied explanation. Stretching for nearly a mile (1.5 km) along the edge of the Pisco Valley, Monte ...

Political factions in Iraq have been maneuvering since the parliamentary election more than a month ago to form alliances ...

Omar García Harfuch is overseeing one of the most aggressive offensives in years against Mexico’s powerful criminal groups.

The countries, whose respective leaders recently won widely disputed elections, offer contrasting examples in how autocracies ...

In the coastal desert of Peru, a line of crumbling stone towers rises from the sand, framing the horizon with an almost ...

High in the Peruvian Andes, where clouds cling to steep slopes and moss drapes every branch, archaeologists have mapped more than 100 hidden structures from a long-vanished city. The discovery, buried ...

In 1532, following a lengthy civil war with his brother Huascar, Inca emperor Atahualpa was captured by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro who seized the opportunity to conquer the lands of the ...

Nestled on a mountain ridge in the Urubamba Valley, Machu Picchu was built as a palace that was part of a larger royal estate belonging to the Inca emperor Pachacuti (reigned ca. 1420–1472). A team of ...

No, it wasn’t built by aliens. But accountants? Maybe. Researchers used drones to get another look at the "Band of Holes" along Monte Sierpe, and their work suggests that the Inca may have ...