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The Russian Ministry for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic has endorsed the idea to declare 2026 the Year of the Arctic in the country, a ministry official confirmed to Vedomosti. The ...

Russia and its long-term former Soviet ally Armenia are drifting apart due to a series of defence commitments remaining ...

Trump’s lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria marks a push to bring the country back into the Western sphere of influence ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio had some testy exchanges with Democratic senators, who questioned him on Trump administration ...

Trump's unswerving faith in his own abilities as a master dealmaker was on display during the first extended overseas foray of his second term — to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. At ...

The burgeoning relationship between Qatar and Russia signals that the Kremlin is not as globally isolated as the West desires ...

MOSCOW/DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow is deeply concerned by what he ...

The U.S. may maintain sanctions while leveraging Azerbaijan as a strategic location to exploit Tehran’s internal ...

Alaa Hassan was 25 years old when the uprisings against Bashar al-Assad began in Syria. He was part of the movement that grew ...

Russia has attempted to maintain ties with Syria’s new authorities, who have said that they may yet allow Moscow to retain use of the Hmeimim airbase and Tartus naval base.