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Turkish and Iranian officials have announced that in April, deputy foreign ministers from Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Russia will convene in Moscow, building on recent discussions between Ankara and Damascus, who have been at…

Russia’s top investigative body has opened a criminal case against the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor and judges who issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges. The move was announced on…

According to a source from the Turkish foreign ministry, the scheduled meeting of the deputy foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Iran, and Syria has been postponed to an unspecified date. The meeting was planned to take place…

Finding people willing to speak to me from Mariupol was never going to be easy. After 10 months of Russian occupation, fear and distrust are the two most frequent responses I encountered when looking for someone who could tell me how…

The soldiers of the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division train, eat and sleep on a drab, sprawling post in south-east Romania, a mere seven-minute rocket flight from where Russia has stockpiled munitions in Crimea. Farther north, in…

Foreign ministers from Russia, Syria and Turkey will meet in the second half of January, after last week holding the highest-level gathering since the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said late…

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday called for a dialogue in resolving the Ukrainian crisis as he held online talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, saying Beijing will "play a constructive role" for its peaceful settlement,…

Ukraine is striking more boldly at targets deep in Russian territory because Kyiv has assessed that Moscow’s military is fighting at the limits of its conventional capabilities, say former military officials and analysts. So far, the…

At least 10 people have been killed and dozens injured in Russian air strikes on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, officials say. Residential and administrative buildings in central areas of the city were damaged in the blasts.…

The director of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said Friday that Russia was trying to convince Ukraine to divert soldiers from the combat zone in the south-east with a flurry of military activity to the north in Belarus, dismissing…