When US vice-president JD Vance was asked about the war in Ukraine at a foreign policy forum in Washington last week, diplomats were expecting Maga-style criticism of Kyiv and veiled sympathy for Russia.
Instead, they heard something quite different. Vance said of a set of Russian proposals to…
It was feted as a military “first” and a return to the Imperial glories of the 16th century when the Ottoman navy, led by Admiral Hayreddin “Red Beard” Barbarossa, dominated the Black Sea and Mediterranean.
A one-tonne TB3 attack drone last month took off from a Turkish-made aircraft…
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The EU is preparing to apply much higher tariffs on Ukrainian imports within weeks, hitting Kyiv’s economy at a crucial time in its fight against Russian aggression.
The decision…
WASHINGTON — US military leaders are increasingly concerned that the United States faces the prospect of global flashpoints turning into prolonged, multi-front confrontations stoked by the United States’ main adversaries — Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
Amid tightening ties between the…
All of a sudden, Ukraine and Russia are preparing for what could be their first direct peace talks since the spring of 2022, when negotiations launched shortly after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor broke up.
The path to the talks expected in Turkey on May 15 has been a short one. On…
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to travel to Turkey regardless of Vladimir Putin’s plans, raising the stakes in a western-led pressure campaign to get the…
Russia is projecting an image of power and strength to conceal significant weaknesses and limitations of its capabilities while distracting from battlefield failures in Ukraine, according to a new report from the US-based think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) released on 9 May 2025….
Western complacency, meanwhile, stoked Russian imperial ambition. Though rich in resources, Rondeaux notes, Russia still relies on the rest of the world to fuel its war machine. Wagner’s operations in Africa burgeoned around the same time as their Syrian operation. In 2016, the French…
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India and Pakistan agreed to an immediate cease-fire, US President Donald Trump and officials from both South Asian countries said, after the biggest flare-up of fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbors in years sparked fears of a full-scale war.
“After a long night of talks mediated by the…