Iran has been accused of littering the Strait of Hormuz with mines as the key oil route becomes a battleground between the warring countries. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the US would ...

Mr. Freedman is an emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College London. He wrote from London. Before sunrise on Feb. 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine from five directions. Moving quickly, it ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, on Friday said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a local truce to allow for repairs at Europe's largest nuclear power plant. Russian forces have controlled ...

Liana Fix is a senior fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Benjamin Harris is a research associate for Europe and foreign policy at CFR. This Ukraine Policy Brief is part of ...

President Vladimir Putin signed into law a new measure giving Russia's main domestic intelligence agency new power to shut down the Internet inside the country. The legislation, signed into law on ...

President Trump returned to the White House in 2025 claiming he would quickly end the Russia-Ukraine war. But the sides today remain far apart on key issues while the war rages on. Russian President ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Russia announced a "partial" mobilization in the fall of 2022, its society experienced a genuine shock. The queues at the ...

Russia’s long history of westward expansion reinforces that concern. Whether it has expanded in search of security, to regain lost Russian lands, or to unify the Russian people— three narratives Putin ...

Few figure skaters at the Winter Olympics have seen Adeliia Petrosian compete in real life. She might leave with the gold medal. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. As she readies to skate ...

The Kremlin has set out proposals that could see Russia embrace the dollar again as part of a wide-ranging economic partnership with the Trump administration, according to an internal Russian document ...

Russia on Thursday confirmed that it had blocked WhatsApp in the country. The Kremlin said citizens can use a state-backed messenging service instead. WhatsApp issued a statement saying Russia had ...

U.S. messenger app WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms, has been completely blocked in Russia for failing to comply with local law, the Kremlin said on Thursday, suggesting Russians turn to a ...