Russian olive trees — sometimes known as silver berry or oleaster — are small, ornamental plants with silvery leaves and black bark, and small yellow flowers and silver fruit that look like miniature ...

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine's top general said Kyiv's troops were stepping up assaults on Russian forces around the eastern Ukrainian town of Dobropillia to ease pressure on the embattled hub of Pokrovsk.

A Russian attack hit Ukraine's energy infrastructure, killing four people and prompting power cuts in several regions, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday. Moscow has in recent months escalated ...

Ukrainian crews scrambled Sunday to repair damage caused by one of the most devastating Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Moscow, which has ...

"THE regime managed to take control of Tel Asked which is located at the outskirts of Hama and near the southern outskirts of the province of Idlib," the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory ...

US President Donald Trump handed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban an exemption from sanctions to keep buying Russian oil on Friday, as the right-wing allies held a chummy White House meeting. As ...

Investigators filed hooliganism charges against all 30 detainees over the past week, but failed to withdraw the piracy charges, the environmentalist organisation said. Among those facing charges are ...

ONE of the jailed women from Russian punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina, is in hospital after a week-long hunger strike. The rocker is one of two bandmembers behind bars for performing a protest ...

AMNESTY International says interviews with witnesses and survivors suggest Russia's bombing of Syria may amount to a war crime. "RUSSIAN air strikes in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians and ...

Multiple Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killing one man on Wednesday night into Thursday, local officials said. Regional authorities ...