The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.

In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about Meloni balancing EU and US interests in the “coalition of the willing” summit ...

U.S. President Donald Trump visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday for the first time since ...

Ukraine has key demands from Russia as well. Kyiv refuses to cede more territory to Moscow, including those in partially ...

Conditions demanded by Russia to agree to a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine show that Moscow does not really want peace, ...

But the pause in U.S. aid served as a dramatic wake-up call: the most crucial factor in determining how long and how ...

The prime minister says military leaders will meet in the UK next week to discuss the practicalities of future security ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian troops have not been encircled by Russian forces in Kursk region, accusing ...

The “root causes” also refer to the Kremlin’s claims that Russia is threatened by NATO expansion after the Cold War. That ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to tolerate Soviet spheres of influence in central and eastern Europe. Many ...

As momentum builds for a ceasefire with Russia, Ukraine has lost a valuable bargaining chip. The Ukrainian army stunned ...

Russia's influence operations in Georgia represent one of the Black Sea region's most comprehensive hybrid warfare campaigns. The Kremlin has employed ...