Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.

ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

Estonia, along with fellow Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania, is preparing finally to rid itself of one of the last vestiges ...

Kyiv make gains with new incursion into Russia as Putin’s troops caught off guard - Russian military bloggers say new Kursk ...

North Korean ballistic missiles fired at Ukraine by Russian forces have become far more precise over time, according to ...

The audio provides an unusual peek inside Russia's fleet of spy ships that NATO nations are watching closely because of concerns that Moscow might sabotage underwater cables and p ...

Captain gets outscored by fellow Russian Matvei Michkov but moves to within 16 goals of Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record in ...

NATO’s first major exercise this year, "STEADFAST DART", has seen its Allied Response Force (ARF) deploy 10,000 troops with ...

The Trump administration's Justice Department has disbanded a Biden-era program aimed at seizing the assets of Russian ...

The U.S. Justice Department under President Donald Trump is disbanding an effort started after Russia's 2022 invasion of ...

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

The U.S. President proposes a deal that links future U.S. aid to Ukraine with access to the country's valuable rare earth minerals, amidst ongoing conflict with Russia and rising global demand for ...