After NATO leaders formally decided to invite Sweden and Finland to join the bloc, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Vladimir Putin “wanted less NATO,” and now he’s “getting more NATO on his borders.”
The fall of Syria’s dictatorship last year brought the end of a long and bloody civil conflict — but no quick relief to millions of Syrians living in the war-shattered nation....
Weeks after Germany’s new center-right government began imposing checks on its border with Poland and turning back some travelers, Warsaw announced retaliatory measures....
After his call with Putin, Trump said he did not think the Russian leader wanted a ceasefire or an end to the three-year-old conflict....
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke Friday after an unprecedented wave of Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv....
Starting this week, Danish women turning 18 will be eligible to be entered into a draft lottery for military service that was previously mandatory for only men....
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan amid a chaotic U.S. withdrawal and toppled the Western-backed government in 2021....
Marwan al-Sultan, director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital, provided harrowing accounts of how the health care system collapsed over the course of the war....
Maj. Gen. Mikhail Gudkov is one of the highest-ranking Russian commanders killed in the war. His death comes as the U.S. seeks to pause military aid to Ukraine....
The non-native insects have no natural predators and have grown in numbers in recent years. Experts say warming temperatures could be a factor in their proliferation....
Azerbaijan has been pushing back against Russian dominance in the Caucasus region, seeking closer ties with Turkey and Israel....
Russia, which has been sending massive waves of drones and missiles against Ukraine, said the U.S. move would help end the war early....
The arrests have raised fears that a new wave of repression is coming, as the government seeks to root out spy networks and clamp down on any dissent....
Kim paid public tribute to North Korean soldiers killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine, part of an effort to cement the two countries’ strategic defense pact....
Russia’s army has vast manpower and equipment advantages over Ukraine but its progress has been slow and Russian military bloggers blame a culture of military corruption....
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials....
Arab governments emphasized this week that a main cause of instability in the region — the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict — must be resolved....
German leaders intend to ramp up defense spending and build the most powerful armed forces in Europe, but shadows of World War II leave many Germans uneasy about militarization....
President Donald Trump’s election brought high expectations that there would be at least a ceasefire this year, but the conflict looks set to only intensify....
Britain says it will buy the 12 Lockheed Martin-designed F-35As to shore up its defenses against Russia and hedge against a U.S. drawdown in Europe....
Weapons deliveries approved by the Biden administration are running out and European officials concede that the Trump administration does not want to offer new aid....
The war between Israel and Iran and President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites have brought renewed attention to where global nuclear stockpiles are kept....
President Trump announced on social media that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire, ending a war he said could have “destroyed the entire Middle East.”...
It remained to be seen whether the attack would ignite a regional war or provide the U.S. and Iran with an off-ramp from their intensifying confrontation....
The Israeli prime minister had set in motion plans to attack Iran long before President Trump began efforts to resolve nuclear concerns through negotiations....
European allies meeting in the Hague confront the prospect of another U.S.-led war. At the summit, some hope to press Trump against a wider escalation with Iran....
The operation a year and a half in the making involved secret cooperation between agents, drone operators and technicians in the intelligence service....
An audio recording obtained exclusively by The Washington Post is a window into the covert campaign by Israeli intelligence to intimidate Iranian military officials....
The heavy attack on the capital came the same day Russia said it would be reaching out to Ukraine to set a date for the next round of peace negotiations....
