Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said earlier during the St. Petersburg Economic Forum that the economy is “on the verge of going into a recession.”
Hamas’s deadly assault on Israel and the war in Gaza that followed has had knock-on effects on Iran, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon, as well as beyond the Middle East....
Israel and Iran have been enemies for decades — but this is their most sustained direct fighting ever. Here’s how a shadow war erupted into an overt conflict....
Russia’s Vladimir Putin said he’s willing to meet with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky but suggested the democratically elected leader couldn’t legally sign a peace deal....
For more than a decade, pilots and judges have warned that India’s breakneck urban development was pushing population centers closer to the nation’s runways....
The stance has been met with relief by war-weary in Lebanon, but there is still a possibility Hezbollah could change its position if Iran’s regime starts to wobble....
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the comments as President Donald Trump weighs entering the conflict between Israel and Iran....
Russia attacked multiple cities across Ukraine with 440 drones and 32 missiles, while President Donald Trump avoided committing to any new sanctions at the G-7 summit....
President Donald Trump had cast himself as a man of “peace” and a “dealmaker” intent on stabilizing a febrile region and ending wars. But he now appears poised to join one....
With ballistic missiles slamming into buildings in Tel Aviv, Israelis say they are losing their long-held sense of security....
Israel and Iran have been exchanging attacks since Friday, leaving more than 20 dead in Israel and more than 200 dead in Iran. Could this become a war? And will the U.S. get involved?...
U.S. refueling aircraft and warships have been dispatched to safeguard U.S. interests as the deadly conflict shows no sign of abating....
When Israel first started bombing Iran, many in Russia saw it as an opportunity, a means of drawing support and attention away from Ukraine....
Iran launched a wave of missiles just hours after Israel said it was striking missile sites in central Iran. Israel says it hit Quds Force command centers....
New targets appear to indicate an expansion of Israel’s war aims beyond the Iranian nuclear facilities that consumed the first days of the conflict....
Last month, Donald Trump declared that, “for the first time in a thousand years, the world will look at this region not as a place of turmoil and strife, and war and death, but as a land of opportunity and hope.”...
Ukrainians say the Russians systematically target their medical facilities. This underground prototype offers an answer....
The strikes are a sign of Israel’s shift away from restraint, containment and short wars, and toward using force to project power across the Middle East....
She called for national reconciliation and, in 1990, became her country’s first female head of state...
Russia says it has moved into the previously unscathed Dnipropetrovsk region to create a buffer zone, a claim Ukraine has dismissed....
As Middle East tensions rise, the Trump administration works on a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program as Israel prepares to attack....
The escalation in aerial attacks comes as Russia begins a summer push on the 620-mile front line in the country’s east....
The warring sides also exchanged prisoners in one of the few results of talks last week, and Russia reported new attacks on the front line....
Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is a rival to Zelensky and under sanctions, but says he knows how to get the American relationship back on track....
Of the 12 countries from which travel is fully restricted, three are embroiled in bloody civil wars. Many of the other countries are also undergoing conflicts....
Officials offered to mediate and even asylum for Elon Musk as many commented how a leader falling out with a top businessman was familiar to Russia....
The Russian attacks come after President Donald Trump likened the two sides to children on a playground who needed “to fight for a while.”...
The comments, in an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, were Trump’s clearest indication to date that he was unsure he would be able to quell Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
Prime Minister Keir Starmer says new military projects will create jobs but it is unclear the British public supports increased defense spending demanded by President Trump....
Authorities in Cologne said this was the largest evacuation of the city since World War II. Unexploded ordnance has commonly been found across Europe....
