See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed its latest eruption on Monday, sending fountains of lava shooting more than 250 feet in the air. Photos of the geological spectacle at Hawaii Volcanoes National ...

It last erupted in 2015 but has a history of more than 50 different eruptions over the last 800 years. The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s ...

The M23 rebel group have captured the city of Goma in the eastern DRC in a major escalation of a drawn-out conflict.

The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks. The eruption that began Dec. 23 in a crater at Kilauea's summit has ...

Scientists are predicting that a colossal underwater volcano, the Axial Seamount, could be on the verge of eruption. Located about 300 miles off the Oregon coast in the US, this mammoth volcano is ...

The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, is displaying behavior that indicates an eruption is imminent in 2025, William Chadwick, an associate ...

The risk of further eruptions from volcano Nyiragongo led DR Congo authorities to order the evacuation of parts of the city of Goma Thursday, causing an immediate exodus of tens of thousands of ...

Indonesia, situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire, experiences the highest level of seismic activity and volcanic eruptions globally, with over 120 active volcanoes.