It’s true that Bashar Assad left the presidential palace on the evening of Saturday, December 7, 2024, and Ahmed al-Sharaa entered it the next day without a single bullet being fired in the capital.

Ms. McKay is a war and humanitarian-focused international correspondent and author of 'Only Cry for the Living: Memos from ...

A deepening spat between Russia and Azerbaijan shows Vladimir Putin's waning influence in the South Caucasus, analysts have ...

Starovoit’s apparent suicide suggests fundamental changes inside the Kremlin, where high-level officials caught in corruption ...

Moscow’s failures will resound beyond the Middle East. Whether the result of Putin’s conscious decision not to intervene or ...

In a move sharply criticized by human rights groups, Germany deported 81 Afghans to Kabul on Friday. Gerald Knaus of the ...

Russian authorities have warned they will treat European satellites supporting the Ukrainian military as legitimate targets for signal jamming - leading to fears of a space war as global tensions cont ...

Since Ukraine’s audacious Operation Spiderweb drone attack on multiple airbases inside Russia in early June, the Russian army ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of ...

Western aspirations for regime change in Russia are a “dangerous delusion” that ignores the lessons of past interventions in Iraq and Libya. -Such efforts are not only unrealistic, given Russia’s ...

Despite Russia’s struggling wartime economy, which faces high interest rates and a growing labor shortage, the international sanctions regime imposed on Moscow remains largely ineffective due to tepid ...