and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold a news conference in Vienna in 2015 amid frustrated efforts to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A woman ...

Unsurprisingly, the war in Ukraine loomed large at both events. But the conflict in Ukraine is just one part of a complex and rapidly changing geopolitical environment which neither Russia nor the ...

Rebels are asserting control in Damascus as questions loom over their plans. By The New York Times The rebels who ended the Assad family’s brutal rule in Syria began asserting control on Monday ...

Just after 6 a.m. Tuesday, an explosion shattered the morning quiet on a residential street in Russia’s capital. A bomb hidden in a scooter detonated, killing a senior military officer. Photos ...

With the Russia-Ukraine war nearing its fourth year, attention is turning to President-elect Donald Trump and how his return to power may affect the conflict. Trump looms as a distressing question ...

As a war criminal he was a legitimate target and had been named in a trial in absentia, the SBU said. Russia’s security service released a statement saying it had detained a 29-year-old man from ...

If you had walked the front lines in the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, you might have heard shouts in Ukrainian and Russian, perhaps mingled with voices speaking regional languages such as Buryat ...

Inflation soared and GDP shrank by a third (see chart 1). The return of macroeconomic stability allowed the government and firms to war-proof their operations. One priority was to protect ...

Is World War III just a few years away? Russian defence minister has given a chilling warning on World War 3 and has also warned NATO against providing military support to Ukraine, who is at war with ...