U.S. President Joe Biden will urge Chinese President Xi Jinping to avoid helping Russia in its war in Ukraine when the two men speak in a phone call later today. The U.S. message to China before today’s call has been one of caution. News reports citing U.S. officials earlier this …

In Ukraine, Good Intentions Can’t Redeem a Bad Idea Faced with a brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, many Americans and Europeans are pushing for their governments to provide as much military support as possible to Kyiv. One idea that a number of prominent observers and commentators have seized on is …

Russian forces attempting to advance through Ukraine remain largely stalled as Ukrainians continue a strong defense of their country, destroying enemy equipment and inflicting an unexpected number of casualties after three weeks of fighting, a senior U.S. defense official said Wednesday. Russia has lost about 10% of its forces used …

For the past weeks, Mykolaiv has been an immovable obstacle to Russia’s plans to cut off Ukraine from the sea. Thousands of volunteers organized themselves to make sure the city keeps functioning under heavy fire On Wednesday morning it was hard to find fresh bread in Mykolaiv, a city of …

As a result of the attack, not yet claimed by any group, five powerful explosions shook the military compound, the Russian news agency Sputnik reported in Arabic, citing local sources. A U.S.-occupied military base in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor has been targeted by a drone and missile …

Rescue workers searched for survivors Thursday in the ruins of a theater blown apart by a Russian airstrike in the besieged city of Mariupol, while scores of Ukrainians across the country were killed in ferocious urban attacks on a school, a hostel and other sites. Hundreds of civilians had been …

Tunisia says it has dismantled a terrorist cell linked to the ISIS group, according to an official statement from the country’s interior ministry. Units from the Anti-Terrorism department at Tunisia’s National Guard said they had been able to uncover a cell called “Al Muwahhidun” linked to an extremist group that …

Any way you look at China’s relations with Russia, any way you dissect every nuance of Chinese policy – to the limited extent there is such a policy – makes clear that in Beijing, Vladimir Putin has transitioned from an asset to a liability. All it took was an unsuccessful …

As the war in Ukraine rages on, diplomats trying to salvage the languishing 2015 Iran nuclear deal have been forging ahead with negotiations despite distractions caused by the conflict. They now appear to be near the cusp of a deal that would bring the U.S. back into the accord and …

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian described the expansion of relations with neighbors, including Russia, as a main priority in the Islamic Republic’s foreign policy. In a meeting in Moscow on Tuesday, Amirabdollahian and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov discussed the bilateral relations, as well as regional and international issues of …