Oil flows from the Gulf have recovered to prewar levels, but the Strait of Hormuz is far from normal. Iran’s ability to disrupt shipping has weakened, yet tankers still face major risks and rely on US...

US authorities designated the A7 financial network as a "significant transnational criminal organization," the latest in a series of steps by Western authorities to try and choke the sprawling Kremlin...

In the days between the elections and his arrest, Aleksandr Kynev had pointed to evidence of falsifications benefitting the United Russia party. Some analysts see his arrest and reported beating as a...

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A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces

Russia has warned NATO it would be ready to resort to nuclear weapons if the Western alliance attempted ​to cut off Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that borders the Baltic Sea.

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The United States has new powers to increase economic pressure on Russia, but their impact will depend on whether the Trump administration uses them consistently and makes clear what it wants Moscow a...

Many Ukrainians who are staying in the US under the TPS program face uncertainty as their protected status is set to expire next month.

Iran and Russia developed a multi-year joint plan aimed at countering Western sanctions, Fox News reported on Sept. 20, after it obtained a nonpublic 44-page Russian government document outlining the ...

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European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on September 28 that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's treatment of his German counterpart, Johann Wadephul, after their recent UN meeting d...

President Donald Trump agreed to a proposal from his envoy John Coale to ease U.S. sanctions on Russia in exchange for the release of political prisoners, a strategy that could also reopen trade and b...

A Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber crashed in the Amur region of Russia's Far East on Sept. 29, killing six of the seven crew members on board. The bomber went down near the village of Krasnoyarovo af...

The former special counsel intends to stand by his investigations into Donald Trump, which led to criminal charges.

The European Commission has called the humanitarian situation in occupied Oleshky "unacceptable" and is seeking access with its international partners.

Russian overnight and morning strikes across the Odesa region injured eight people and damaged a civilian enterprise, port infrastructure, educational institutions, residential buildings, and vehicles...