To appreciate the dramatic shift in President Donald Trump’s policy towards Ukraine, consider two scenes in the Oval Office, ...

Monochrome aerial footage released by Israel's military shows what it says are strikes on tanks in Syria. Video credit: ...

Syrian army begins withdrawing heavy military equipment from Suwayda to hand over city’s neighborhoods to internal security ...

North Korea and Russia will begin operating direct flight service linking their capital cities of Pyongyang and Moscow later ...

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The fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024 was a major blow to Russian influence and power projection in the ...

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At a press conference in Tianjin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov slammed US President Trump’s 50-day Ukraine peace ...

In his inaugural address, Donald Trump said his “proudest legacy” as president will be that of a “peacemaker.” “Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been ...

For the first time in 30 years, in 2024, some of the world's biggest spenders on aid and development cut funding. Now aid organizations in the Middle East are forced to seek new, potentially more ...

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny urged Italian authorities Tuesday to cancel a concert by Russian maestro Valery Gergiev, saying it would help normalise President Vladimir ...

The Russian foreign minister noted that a gradual pivot away from the dollar is now unstoppable, with statistics confirming the trend by showing how the dollar's share in world trade has changed ...