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Currently, Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border region of Kursk. That the Russians haven’t been more ...

The Ukraine-Russia war that began in February 2022 led to a series of conflicts for various reasons in different parts of the world, including Israel, Gaza, Syria, Sudan and Myanmar, taking a huge ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” on Feb. 24, 2022, University of Chicago Prof. Konstantin Sonin called the full-scale invasion of Ukraine “the end of ...

Russian drone attack kills 2, injures 6, damages central bank building in Kyiv Russia has lost over 38,000 troops in Kursk Oblast, Syrskyi says Ukraine has brought back 1,358 people from Russian ...

Zelensky's message that he believes Trump will be able to end the war and achieve peace is significant because he has previously clashed with the president-elect on his plan to end the conflict ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated in a recent closed meeting about the hostages that fighting in Gaza would resume following any cease-fire agreement with Hamas, according to a ...

As the third year of war in Ukraine nears a close as the new year approaches and ahead of the Feb. 24, 2025, anniversary date, new battle lines have once again been established after Russia made ...

The start of 2025 is likely to see Russia maintain battlefield momentum in its invasion of Ukraine amid concerns about what the new year will mean for continued American aid for Kyiv. U.S ...

Once Russia's initial push to subjugate Ukraine failed in the first weeks of its full-scale invasion, a widespread view prevailed for two years or more: There's no end in sight. That has changed ...

Inside a six-month Times investigation. By Sanjana Varghese I’m a reporter on the Visual Investigations team. Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary — both armed by foreign powers ...

Eyck Freymann is a Hoover fellow at Stanford University. Hugo Bromley is a research fellow at the Center for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge. China’s military exercises in the waters ...