A U.S. Navy destroyer took on Russian forces on Tuesday in a direct challenge to Moscow’s territorial claims in the Pacific. Dispatched from a Navy base in Japan, the USS John McCain set out for Peter the Great Bay in the Western Pacific to combat Russia’s “excessive maritime claims,” according …

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the implementation of a Russian-brokered agreement that stopped the war in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region in separate phone calls with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, the Kremlin said on November 24.

The Syrian regime “continues to allow Iran and its proxies to use its territory… to entrench its presence in Syria.” The United Nations Security Council must demand Iran’s ouster from Syria and condemn attacks by its proxies against Israel from that neighboring territory, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan …