Eurasia

After attending Israel’s Mideast summit, Blinken will meet with the UAE leader to discuss Iran and global energy markets in the face of high crude prices U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates in Morocco on Tuesday in a bid …

As the Russian economy continues to buckle down amidst the barrage of economic sanctions from the West, Moscow attempts to shift the narrative and blame the West for declaring “total war” against Russia. “A real hybrid war, total war was declared on us,” claimed Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in …

A deputy Russian defense minister said during peace talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul on Tuesday that Russia would “by multiples, reduce military activity” near Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv. The news came as diplomats from both sides met in Turkey to discuss a potential ceasefire, more …

Russian and Ukrainian delegations are in Istanbul for the first face-to-face talks in more than two weeks after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine was prepared to declare its neutrality and consider a compromise on contested areas in the country’s east to secure peace. Earlier talks between the sides, both in-person …

About 240 sailors and six Navy EA-18G Growlers will arrive in Germany on Monday as Russia’s war in nearby Ukraine drags on, chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. The troops and electronic attack aircraft will deploy from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., to Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, Kirby …

Turkey on Monday found a mine floating off of its coast near Bulgaria and Turkish defense officials were working to defuse it. It is the second mine deployed by Ukraine in the Black Sea to halt the advance of Russian troops to be discovered floating off of Turkey’s coast in …

A Ukrainian mayor who was abducted by Russian forces was released after a mass protest by the town’s residents, reports say. Russian forces entered the northern Ukrainian city of Slavutych, near the Chernobyl power plant, on Saturday and seized a hospital, and took the mayor Yuri Fomichov hostage, Ukrainian officials …

With its aspirations for a quick victory dashed by a stiff Ukrainian resistance, Russia has increasingly focused on grinding down Ukraine’s military in the east in the hope of forcing Kyiv into surrendering part of the country’s territory to possibly end the war. The bulk of the Ukrainian army is …

The risk of war in the Baltic states is real, General Sir Richard Shirreff, former deputy head of NATO in Europe, told the Swedish broadcaster SVT in an exclusive interview on Sunday. Shirreff, who was in Sweden to give a lecture at the Royal Academy of War Sciences, gave a …

The British government has reported that the Russian mercenary company, the Wagner Group, has been hired by Russia to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following Putin’s stalled invasion of Ukraine. They were first reportedly flown in from Africa to Donetsk during the onset of the invasion. However, it seems that …