Moscow’s forces have launched a massive counteroffensive to retake land in the Kursk region, a potential bargaining chip for Kyiv.
Despite criticism over its conduct of the war in Gaza, some see new diplomatic opportunities for Israel....
Ukraine and aviation experts rejected other explanations for an Azerbaijan Airlines crash that killed at least 38 people....
Some 24.6 million people—half of Sudan’s population—are experiencing food insecurity, which cements its status as the world’s worst hunger hot spot....
Ukrainian officials say the bungled attempt to steal the remains was part of a continuing Russian effort to repatriate the remains of the Soviet war dead....
North Korea and Russia are deepening their military cooperation, as Pyongyang ramps up the supply of arms to Moscow for its war in Ukraine and receives much needed cash and oil from the Kremlin in return....
While Russia is mass-producing machinery at state-owned industries, Ukraine has spawned hundreds of entrepreneur-led defense startups by slashing regulation and cutting taxes....
Moscow has stepped up efforts to refurbish old equipment, including Soviet-era tanks used as props in films, after losing an estimated 11,000 armored combat vehicles in the Ukraine war....
A quiet suburban mom, a hard-drinking war correspondent and an Arctic researcher were hiding in plain sight, championed by the Kremlin’s No. 1 fan of spy fiction....
The Russian president appeared in no hurry to seek an end to the war despite President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to secure a speedy resolution....
Russia’s business elites have found a scapegoat for the country’s economic woes....
After the fall of the Assad regime, Russian cargo planes flew equipment from Syria to bases Moscow controls in eastern Libya, according to U.S. and Libyan officials....
The attack on Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was part of an escalating campaign by Ukraine’s security and intelligence services to kill high-profile figures in Russia’s war effort....
Ukraine carried out one of its most audacious operations on Russian soil, killing a top military commander by blowing up a scooter on the snowy streets of Moscow....
The regime’s trade in captagon, a methamphetamine-like drug, helped sustain its rule and fueled war and addiction across the region....
The Volgoneft-212 was carrying thousands of barrels of oil when it ran aground late Sunday and damaged its hull. A second tanker was also damaged....
In his first comments from exile in Moscow, the deposed dictator pushes back against criticism that he abandoned supporters....
The incoming administration has signaled that a backdoor that lets manufacturers avoid China tariffs could slam shut....
Sabotage, warning shots, disruption of air traffic and dangerous military maneuvering are all part of the intensifying clandestine campaign in Europe, officials say....
The air base at Khmeimim and the naval installation at Tartus had become synonymous with Russia’s intervention in Syria....
Washington’s main ally in the country warned that a power vacuum was leading to attacks on the group by Turkish-backed rebels....
With Moscow’s money, attention and ammunition focused on its conflict with Ukraine, the Kremlin’s global power projects are in a state of slow decay....
The president-elect told the French and Ukrainian leaders that he would want European troops to be present in Ukraine....
The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era....
Beijing is brandishing an expanded arsenal of countermeasures as President-elect Donald Trump threatens across-the-board tariffs on Chinese-made goods....
The U.S., Turkey and Israel are all pursuing long-held ambitions in the country after Assad’s ouster weakened Iranian and Russian influence....
A company with links to the United Arab Emirates has deployed contractors to support the rebel Rapid Support Forces....
A warlord ordered the slaying of elderly slum residents he suspected of giving his son a severe illness through witchcraft, the U.N. and human-rights groups said....
Moscow fired four times as many drones and missiles this fall as it did the previous year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis....
Bashar al-Assad called for help from Russia, Iran and his own military in his last hours as Syria’s leader, learning he had run out of allies and loyalty....
Rebel fighters seized Damascus and deposed President Assad, taking a more than decade-old conflict into a new phase....
