The Pentagon is upping the ante to deter the Kremlin’s provocations in Syria as both Russia and Iran seek to take advantage of a smaller US force fighting ISIS. The Pentagon has deployed advanced F-22 fighter jets to the Middle East in a bid to deter Russian military pilots’ increasing …

A New European Recovery Program As Ukrainians risk their lives battling for national survival, the United States, European countries, and their allies should prepare a counteroffensive of their own against Russian aggression: a massive new European recovery program to begin operation by next year. This counteroffensive would be nonviolent, centered …

Turkey’s military “neutralised” 53 Kurdish militants in northern Syria, using ground artillery and drones in retaliatory strikes following an attack on a police post on the Turkish side of the border at the weekend, the defence ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry typically uses the term “neutralised” to describe killed …