There have been territorial disputes with the countries that border the Caspian Sea, however. There are myriad reasons why, including that the sea is extremely rich in oil and natural gas ...

The Caspian Sea, once a bounty of clean water and fish, is shrinking due to climate breakdown and human activities.

Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - all bordering the Caspian Sea - have agreed in principle on how to divide it up. Their leaders signed the Convention on the Legal Status of ...

A centuries-old shipwreck has been unearthed on the Caspian Sea coast. Archaeologists are studying the vessel to uncover its ...

The geopolitical borders of the Caspian Sea have been a source of contention for decades among the Caspian littoral states (the countries along the sea's shores): Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan ...

Phys.org reports that a wooden shipwreck discovered in Iran on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea has been studied by a ...

Archaeologists from the International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies, Italy, along with the Underwater ...

Ukraine launched a stunning long-range drone attack on a Russian naval base on the Caspian Sea. Several drones bore ... 868 miles from Ukraine's border as the crow flies. Video images captured ...

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane, which crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, had reportedly requested an ...

However, in stark contrast to the Danube, the Volga crosses not a single international border - it flows entirely ... before emptying into the Caspian Sea. Its immense length and basin - which ...

It increasingly appears that the Azerbaijani jet that crashed in Kazakhstan was shot down by Russian air defenses. Officials ...

"The Caspian Sea has been swum before but we're talking ... While crossing the Russian border near the Chukotkan village of Uelen, the pair were detained by officials for not entering the country ...