For the many Afghans who suffered unimaginable loss during two decades of war, the hollow peace has neither healed old wounds nor created new opportunities.
Gen. Valery Zaluzhny’s distance from Kyiv, possibly an attempt to sideline his political ambitions, has left him at a safe remove from tensions back home....
Iran’s supreme leader has warned the government would not “back down,” as rights groups fear the communications blackout in place could presage a brutal crackdown....
The German capital just experienced its longest blackout since the end of World War II, and authorities say it was caused deliberately — by an arson attack....
A previously unreported Christmas Eve meeting in Vatican City was one of many failed attempts to find safe harbor for the Venezuelan leader before the U.S. raid....
Russia said its strike was retaliation for a claimed drone attack that President Donald Trump said never happened. Kyiv’s mayor urged residents to evacuate if they can....
After Western leaders signed a document on post-war security guarantees for Ukraine, Russia said it would view foreign peacekeeping troops as a threat....
Israel’s enforcement of its shifting demarcation line in Gaza has left hundreds of Palestinians dead in the months since an Oct. 10 ceasefire....
A Russian-flagged vessel was boarded in the North Atlantic. Another ship was apprehended near the Caribbean....
The USS Iwo Jima and the USS San Antonio have been relocated to waters north of Cuba, and the Air Force also has withdrawn some aircraft from the region....
Denmark’s leader warned that any use of force by Washington to seize Greenland, as Trump officials have suggested, would render the postwar NATO alliance defunct....
The U.S. intervention in Venezuela distracts attention from Ukraine and signals a new era of great-power politics in which Russia can seek its own sphere of dominance....
The ousting of Vasyl Maliuk, head of the Ukrainian security services, infuriated many military commanders, who said it risked destabilizing the chain of command....
President Donald Trump warned Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodríguez to “do what’s right” or “pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.”...
The Ukrainian president’s choice of a new top aide prioritizes battlefield knowledge and public popularity and also seeks to dispel concerns over a corruption scandal....
Violent conflicts around the world left at least 240,000 people dead in 2025, ACLED data shows. The high level of conflict remained steady after years of increasing....
Russia invaded Ukraine to restore it to Moscow’s orbit, but President Donald Trump’s peace plan would increase Kyiv’s security, economic and other ties with the West....
One Russian official called the outage “a break from the endless viewing of unnecessary videos” and urged citizens to deliver holiday greetings in person....
The airstrike marks an unprecedented escalation of tensions between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, whose goals in war-torn Yemen have increasingly diverged....
The Kremlin paints a picture of a society united by war, but underneath, frustration is festering as all avenues of creativity and dissent or controlled or blocked....
Beijing’s military launched a massive simulated blockade of Taiwan, sending a warning to the independent island after the U.S. approved an $11 billion arms sale....
Russian allegations of an attack on one of Putin’s residences, denied by Ukraine, injected new uncertainty into U.S.-sponsored peace talks....
The United States will help facilitate Russia-Ukraine talks in January, as Trump called the peace process “very complicated stuff.”...
Satellite images suggest China is growing the sites where it makes warheads, while also preparing to retaliate faster — signs of its nuclear ambitions....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the attacks make clear Russia does not want to end the war and that the world must do more to pressure Moscow....
The Sunday meeting suggests that Washington and Kyiv are closing in on a joint position to end the war. Russia, however, will probably reject the plan....
Displaced seven times, Diana Shams intended to return to her home, which survived years of war in Gaza only to be destroyed in the final hours before the ceasefire....
The pope called for peace, especially for the victims of “forgotten” wars, naming several conflicts in Africa....
The music school dedicated to the song’s Ukrainian composer, Mykola Leontovych, was destroyed in Pokrovsk but has been reborn in exile....
It is the first time Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has inched toward any compromise on the issue of territory in the eastern Donbas region, which Russia claims....
