Socotra is one of the most isolated and surreal places on Earth — an island filled with alien-looking trees, untouched ...

An island lies adrift between the Horn of Africa and Yemen in the Arabian Sea. It is an island so strange, so biologically isolated, and so visually unlike anywhere else on the planet as to be almost ...

On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young plant, protected by a makeshift fence of wood and wire, is a kind of dragon’s ...

Scores of foreign nationals who traveled to a remote Indian Ocean island seeking adventure have become stranded there as simmering tensions between warring Yemeni parties and their backers disrupt ...

Sitting off the Horn of Africa, the Yemeni island of Socotra was largely left to its own devices for centuries, its few guests arriving to trade for aromatic frankincense, the healing plant aloe and ...

In the Indian Ocean, the Yemeni island of Socotra is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. More than a third of the plant species on the island don’t exist anywhere else on the planet. That ...

When the United Arab Emirates withdrew its troops from Yemen last week under a deadline from Saudi Arabia, it also left behind the remote Yemeni island of Socotra and the roughly 600 tourists who had ...

Sitting off the Horn of Africa, the Yemeni island of Socotra was largely left to its own devices for centuries, its few guests arriving to trade for aromatic frankincense, the healing plant aloe and ...

An Arizona couple became stranded on the Yemeni island of Socotra after the government imposed a travel embargo. The couple and hundreds of other tourists were offered a flight off the island for $800 ...

Flights from the Indian Ocean island of Socotra were suspended due to armed clashed in nearby Yemen on Thursday, Jan. 1 Getty American tourists are believed to be among at least 400 travelers ...