Mr Putin’s war against Ukraine inadvertently led to an end to the hitherto intractable conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which is now struggling to break free of Russia’s grip and make peace ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended decades of Cold War tension and reshaped global politics. But what if the USSR never fell? What if Gorbachev’s reforms had succeeded, transforming the ...

In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...

Russia has taken full control of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, more than three years after President Vladimir Putin ordered thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian-backed ...

The most powerful weapon in the US nuclear arsenal is the B83 nuclear bomb. Developed in the late 1970s and in use since 1983 ...

Operation Barbarossa transformed Nazi Germany’s war from a one-front struggle, against a weakened Britain and a still-neutral United States, into a two-front conflict. The Eastern Front absorbed as ...

The Trump administration should embrace a North Korea strategy that aims to contain escalation, not keep a white-knuckled ...

The American fast-food giant plans to open about 10 new restaurants in Ukraine this year, a testament to the country’s ...

Since October 7, the Jewish community has harboured a belief that the government was never really up for the fight against ...

Putin affirms Russia’s neutrality in the Iran-US conflict, citing the large Russian-speaking population in Israel, as Iran seeks Moscow’s support after recent US strikes.

Surprising new research purports to show that Scottish people felt British centuries before the Union with England. Isobel Scott is not convinced ...