NICOSIA: Warships, threats and multibillion-dollar deals: The scramble for gas in the eastern Mediterranean is fueling hope and tensions across a volatile...
MOSCOW: Andrei Kolesnikov laid out the letters his grandfather sent home from the Stalinist labor camp where he eventually died after eight years as a...
QARAQOSH, Iraq: Factories churning out tens of thousands of munitions and an entire street turned into a conveyor belt for car bombs: Advances by Iraqi forces...
QAYYARAH BASE, Iraq: Iraqi army pilot Hossam Jassim banked his helicopter sharply to the left as a Russian-made Mi-35 gunship flying alongside unleashed a...
KHIDR ILYAS, Iraq: Father Charbel Issu stands before a shattered altar, spreads out his hands and begins leading a group of Kalashnikov-wielding militia...
QABR AL-ABD, Iraq: Iraqi civilians who escaped from the Daesh (ISIS) stronghold of Mosul said militants forced them from their villages and drove them “like...
MOSCOW: Veteran Russian opposition activist Sergei Davidis was among 300 people who showed up to a protest in Moscow against the start of the Kremlin’s Syria...
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday lifted restrictions on travel to Turkey after mending ties with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan,...
HMEIMIM AIR BASE, Syria: Around a dozen Russian warplanes stand on the tarmac at the Hmeimim base inside government-held territory on Syria’s Mediterranean...
ABOARD THE MOSKVA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: Captain Alexander Shvarts looked on as the iron covers whirred open on the air defense system aboard the Russian...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday presided over a huge military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany,...
DONETSK, Ukraine: Ferocious fighting raged in Ukraine on Saturday, threatening a ceasefire deal as Kiev and the US accused Russia of fueling a rebel onslaught...
DONETSK: NATO Wednesday accused Russia of sending fresh columns of tanks, troops and military hardware into Ukraine as Kiev said it was preparing for a return...
DONETSK: The United States Thursday accused Russia of being "directly involved" in fighting in war-torn east Ukraine, after rebels appeared to seize swath of...
BERLIN: Germany warned Sunday that direct military clashes between Russia and Ukraine must be avoided at all costs as Kiev and Moscow's top diplomats joined...
ROZSYPNE, Ukraine: Explosions range out near the crash site of downed flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine Thursday as international investigators arrived for the...
HEBRON: Israel has revived a long-lapsed policy of destroying suspected militants' homes after the dead bodies of three Israeli teenagers missing since...
MOSCOW: The rights group running Russia’s only museum in a preserved former Soviet labor camp warns that the facility is facing closure as authorities...
KIEV: With a bloody insurgency raging in the east, the ominous presence of Russian troops across the border and an economy in deep recession, next...
MARIUPOL, Ukraine: Fierce fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels broke out in the southeastern city of Mariupol on Friday, killing 21...
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine: The smouldering wreckage of rebel checkpoints, locals in makeshift balaclavas brandishing sawn-off shotguns and besieged cities on edge....
KOSTYANTYNIVKA, Ukraine: Ukraine vowed on Sunday to broaden its "anti-terrorist" operation against pro-Russian rebels, as the crisis-hit country...
KOSTYANTYNIVKA, Ukraine: The United States and Europe Monday whacked Russia with fresh sanctions for failing to stop soaring tensions in Ukraine, where a...
KIEV: As fighting rages all around him on Kiev’s Independence Square, a volunteer medic tears open a young protester’s bloodstained T-shirt and...
KIEV: Protesters braced Wednesday for a fresh assault by riot police in central Kiev after a day of clashes left at least 25 people dead in the worst violence...