Three killed in cross-border attacks as 1,700 of Kyiv’s troops desert army - Around 1,700 soldiers of a high-profile unit ...

On December 8, a coalition of rebels led by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) conquered Damascus, and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow. The same day, China mobilized 14 warships ...

Palestinian and hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 50 people across the Gaza Strip, including several ...

Ukraine and Russia carried out a new exchange of prisoners of war on Monday, with Kyiv bringing home 189 former captives. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the United Arab Emirates and ...

IT WAS a very social week for a man with a $10m bounty on his head. Foreign diplomats rushed to Damascus to talk with Ahmad al-Sharaa (pictured), the rebel commander who led the offensive that ...

After capturing Damascus, Ahmed al-Sharaa dropped his nom de guerre and changed his garb, which seem to be helping him raise funds for rebuilding Syria. Wearing a tie is one of the signals that he is ...

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Russian leader tells nation that he is ready to meet Donald Trump to discuss an end to the war during televised four-hour annual phone-in Vladimir Putin declared on Thursday that Russia was closer ...

I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: The Center for ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Russia should have launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier and been better prepared for the war. In his end-of-year press conference on Thursday ...

With a struggling economy, the US is facing a hard choice between ‘guns or butter.’ MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICHOLAS JS DAVIES see the signs that the incoming president will opt for the former ...