U.S. President Donald Trump says President Vladimir Putin has agreed to temporarily halt the targeting of the Ukrainian capital and other towns as the region suffers under bitterly cold temperatures.

Weeks before the start of the fifth year of its all-out war, Russia is having more success obliterating Ukraine’s energy ...

In the Lithuania that existed before the Second World War, a young veterinarian named Ksaveras Masanauskas was a lieutenant-colonel in the independent nation’s army. Then Adolf Hitler and ­Joseph ...

The swift advance of Moscow’s forces into the town of Huliaipole showcases a central challenge for Kyiv: how to defend 700 ...

The era of nuclear arms control officially ends next week. On Feb. 5, New START, the last such treaty between the United ...

Xi Jinping's China is not Stalin's Russia and there is no bullet to the back of the head for rivals - at least not ...

The leader of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on Thursday that he was opposed to talks on ending the war in ...

Since 2012, Xi has been raising the banner of the war on corruption and leading a campaign to purge the ranks of the party ...

Military turmoil in China raises Taiwan invasion concerns as Xi Jinping removes senior officers. Analysts warn of growing ...

China's highest-ranking military official under Xi Jinping was brought down in a fresh purge over the weekend, sparking pressing questions about Beijing’s designs on Taiwan, competition with the ...

In short, is the US still the world’s sole superpower, able to dictate terms to Beijing even just off the China coast – or ...

Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the ...