The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between Arab Muslims and the army ...

The researchers were undertaking a remote sensing survey to map out the route of the Darb Zubaydah, a Hajj pilgrimage route ...

One of the most important sites in Islam's history has now been identified and surveyed, owing to US spy satellite images ...

Archaeologists say they have found the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with ...

Qadisiyah, the Arab army emerged victorious and continued its march into Persia, contributing to the spread of Islam beyond ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

A joint team of archeologists from the U.K.’s Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site ...

The NZZ makes extensive use of satellite images from various providers, including Google Earth, to monitor troop movements, ...

"Entire houses have disappeared," says a local mayor in Spain's flood-battered Valencia region. "We don't know if there were ...

Considered to be one of the most powerful satellites in the world, this NISAR mission, a NASA-ISRO collaboration, is likely ...

The deadly flooding that rocked Spain this week following intense, historic rainfall is so expansive and severe the area ...

Record-breaking levels of thick, toxic smog that have shrouded eastern Pakistan and northern India since last month can be ...