Fast forward to today, and one can see what is meant when the late Henry Kissinger, a former US secretary of state, described Putin last year as a "Dostoevsky-type figure", after the frustrated ...

If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.

Richard Heydarian is a senior lecturer at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and author of "The ...

Save Sign in and save to read later In June 2024, Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general and national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, presented a plan he co-authored with the ...

Vladimir Putin assured Russia he was "certain that everything will be fine" in his New Year's Eve address on Tuesday, as the nation heads toward its fourth year of war in Ukraine in 2025.

And at least a halt to the war will save some lives — if only temporarily as Putin is unlikely to be satisfied with ... who will be able to determine our future,” they say. Henry Kissinger and others ...

AS Vladimir Putin celebrates 25 years of rule over Russia, his first speech as president resurfaced showing a slew of broken promises and the emergence of a very different leader. A quarter of a ...

Jake Sullivan faced the toughest global challenges of any national security adviser in a half-century. How did he do?

Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to promote "world peace" in a New Year's message to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, state media reported on Tuesday. "No matter how the international ...

Speaking on the 25th anniversary of his rule, President Vladimir V. Putin delivered an upbeat and vague New Year’s Eve message that did not address casualties in Ukraine or rising inflation at home.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Add to the tension that Putin’s Russia has been engaged in a covert war against Ukraine since 2014, which he had turned into a full-scale ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a "tragic incident" following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that ...