The popular image of a world war is sudden catastrophe, mass mobilization, and unmistakable collapse. That is not what we see today. However, the world is in a great power competition, a distributed ...

Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before ...

Since 1991 and the Chechen Wars, Russian policy has been an unconditional continuation of what was essentially left unfinished in the 19th century: a form of territorial colonialism (unlike Western ma ...

The population of the South Caucasus is around 17–18 million people combined. Azerbaijan has about 10 million. Georgia around ...

MOSCOW, March 13 (Reuters) - The deputy head of Russia's Star City, a settlement near Moscow that hosts the country's main space training facility, has been detained along with six associates on ...

Andrei Svintsov, vice-chairman of the information policy committee in the State Duma (Russia’s lower house of parliament), ...

In an address to a joint session of Congress, President Harry Truman embraced a global role for the United States and opened a new chapter in U.S. foreign policy.

The fact that 140 governments co-sponsored a resolution denouncing the right of a historically oppressed country to resist the most brutal forms of imperialist violence underscores that world ...

The Portland spy ring trial began on 13 March 1961. The BBC reported on a Cold War tale of espionage, adultery, exorcism – and a deceptively ordinary-looking bungalow.

The United States and Israel have been conducting airstrikes on Iran for a week and a half. Stephen Stromberg, an editor in Opinion, on Wednesday convened the Opinion columnists Nicholas Kristof and ...

Museveni wins Uganda election; Sadat breaks with Soviet alliance; US forces retake Seoul in Korean War; Fascist Italy bans strikes ...

Will Trump and Netanyahu be satisfied with something less than “regime change”? Or are they dead set on continuing the war until the ayatollahs and their brutal enforcers have been replaced by a ...