Russia wants to test NATO's resolve by hostile steps beyond Ukraine, as some Russian officials believe the alliance's collective defense principle no longer works, German intelligence chief Bruno Kahl ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has draped himself in old-fashioned, medieval conceptions of Russian history to add symbolic weight to his authoritarian government. AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko ...

Jihadists in Mali have choked off fuel supplies to the capital, Bamako, threatening the junta’s grip on power and exposing the limits of Russia’s promised security support. One of the Al-Qaeda-linked ...

Russia has a dirty little secret. It faces a dire population problem. For decades, the country has struggled under deeply adverse demographics, with deaths outpacing births and successive waves of ...

Russia and Ukraine agreed a prisoner swap during their third set of direct talks in Istanbul on Wednesday, but appeared to make little progress on ceasefire terms or a possible summit between their ...

Russian forces are surging an estimated 16,000 troops for a renewed offensive in eastern Ukraine that could begin in as little as 10 days as the Kremlin seeks to take more of the roughly 30% of the ...

DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield expressed little hope for a diplomatic solution to the war, as U.S. President Donald Trump's deadline arrived Friday for the ...