U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged at least four cultural and historical sites, including palaces and an ancient ...

Oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz, 11 March 2026 ...

Russia has blocked the U.S.-based messaging app WhatsApp, the Kremlin announced Thursday, claiming the Meta-owned company failed to comply with local laws. The move follows six months of pressure on ...

Russia on Thursday confirmed that it had blocked WhatsApp in the country. The Kremlin said citizens can use a state-backed messenging service instead. WhatsApp issued a statement saying Russia had ...

Ukraine transports Russian oil despite the war Russia hit Druzhba oil pipeline which pumps its oil to Europe No reports of disruptions from Hungary or Slovakia KYIV, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Last month's ...

Russia has confirmed that it has blocked instant messaging app WhatsApp in the country, instead directing Russian citizens to use its state-backed Max app. The news comes days after it emerged that ...

Russia’s military has been badly battered by its failure to conquer Ukraine, but Moscow is now rebuilding its war machine for the long haul, according to a new assessment from Estonia’s foreign ...

When the Russian army unleashed its large-scale air and ground invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there was widespread expectation that the war would wrap up in Moscow’s favor relatively quickly.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of continuing "Bidenism" and doing the opposite of what he had agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin at their ...

Russia’s status at the Olympics in recent years has been complicated, to say the least. Following the revelation that numerous athletes were involved in a state-sponsored doping scheme, in 2018 in ...

A top Russian military intelligence general was shot in a Moscow apartment building Friday and hospitalized, the Kremlin said, depicting it as an assassination attempt orchestrated by Ukraine. There ...

A Russian general with a crucial role in the country’s intelligence services is in a hospital after being shot by an unknown assailant at an apartment block in Moscow, the country’s investigative ...