While popular destinations like Bali and the Maldives buckle under tourist pressure, some extraordinary islands remain ...

Evolution has run riot on Yemen’s windy isles of Socotra, whose dizzying cliffs, jagged peaks and exotic plants entice the imagination to do the same. Here be dragons, or at least Dragon’s Blood trees ...

A Soviet-era tank rusts on the northern coast of the Yemeni island of Ghubbah - Copyright AFP Peter MARTELL A Soviet-era tank rusts on the northern coast of the ...

In this file 2013 photo, a woman sits on the road to Homhil of the Socotra islands. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi ADEN, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Winds and rain from the second rare cyclone to hit Yemen in two ...

SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni security officials say the United Arab Emirates is boosting its troop presence on Yemen's remote island of Socotra in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia, a move they say is triggering ...

SANAA, YemenSANAA, Yemen — Hundreds are protesting in Yemen’s remote island of Socotra in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia, demanding the United Arab Emirates withdraw from the island and from the ...

December 2012: IUCN mission; June 2014: IUCN/Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) mission 2014 IUCN/ARC-WH Mission Report, Socotra Archipelago, June 2014 2012 Report on the IUCN Mission to ...

ADEN (Reuters) - Southern separatists have seized control of Yemen's island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea, deposing its governor and driving out forces of the Saudi-backed government which condemned ...