President-elect Donald Trump is signaling to NATO member-states that they must spend 5 percent of their GDP annually on defense if they want U.S. support, in order to prepare for a potential war with Russia in the next decade.

Russia’s top security agency says that it has arrested several suspects accused of involvement in an alleged Ukrainian plot to assassinate senior military officers

MOSCOWRussia’s Federal Security Service said on Thursday it had foiled several plots by Ukrainian intelligence services to kill high-ranking Russian officers and their families in Moscow using bombs disguised as power banks or document folders. On Dec. 17, Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service killed Lieutenant General Kirillov, chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical...

"The causes of the accident are being investigated," Azerbaijan officials said.

Arctic LNG 2 continues its struggles to sell gas from Russias newest but heavily sanctioned LNG export project. In one of the latest pieces of anecdotal evidence, a sanctioned LNG carrier, which had loaded liquefied natural gas in the Artic in August, traveled for four months around north Europe, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean, along Chinas east coast and north to Russia...

Crews in Ukraine are cleaning up this morning after a massive attack launched by Russia on Christmas, with drones and missiles appearing to target Ukraine's energy grid.

President Joe Biden on Christmas Day said he has directed the Pentagon to continue its surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine, following a wave of Russian air attacks on Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure early Christmas morning. The purpose of this outrageous attack was to cut off the Ukrainian peoples access to heat and electricity […]

Other Russian clients may conclude that they cant rely on Moscow.

The West should not let Tbilisi slip back into Russias orbit.

Since early August, the Ukrainian military has occupied a salient inside Russia, in the Kursk Oblast.Now, the Russian military is trying to eradicate that salient by throwing thousands of Russian and North Korean troops at it.The Ukrainian Salient inside RussiaRussias counter-offensive against the

President Biden on Wednesday denounced Russias latest attack on Ukraine, declaring the wave of missiles and drones outrageous. "The purpose of this outrageous attack was to cut off the Ukrainian peoples access to heat and electricity during winter and to jeopardize the safety of its grid, Biden said in a statement. Let me be clear:...

Several passenger plane crashes have occurred worldwide this year, including a Wednesday morning Azerbaijan Airlines wreck that has left dozens feared dead.

An Azerbaijan Airlines jet flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, along the shores of the Caspian Sea on Christmas Day while attempting to make an emergency landing. Officials said dozens of people died in the crash, but remarkably, several dozen also survived. Chris Livesay has the latest.

An Azerbaijan Airlines flight with 67 people onboard crashed in Kazakhstan earlier today. A Kazakh official has confirmed the deaths of 38 people. Azerbaijani authorities said they are still investigating why the plane tried to make an emergency landing. Russia launched attacks on Ukraines energy infrastructure on Christmas Day, with explosions reported across the country. […]

The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has, for the first time, sent combatant units abroad, to aid Russia in the war in Ukraine. As noted in theJoint Statementon the DPRKs Deployment of ...

A massive Russian missile and drone barrage on Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Christmas morning was "inhumane," Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said.

Out of 67 passengers, 38 people died when an Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed Wednesday