Emergency responders retrieve a body from the rubble of a devastated building following a Ukrainian attack in a location given as Lysychansk, in the occupied eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, in this screen grab obtained from a video released February 3, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The death toll from a strike on a bakery … Read more
In this photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, Russian soldiers fire from aboard a Ka-27 helicopter of the Russian Black Sea Fleet during a patrol the Black Sea. | Photo Credit: AP Russia on Saturday announced its forces shot down four Ukrainian missiles over Moscow-annexed … Read more
A Ukraine Special Operations Forces officer talks on the radio while navigating the Dnipro River during a night mission in Kherson region, in Kherson, Ukraine, on June 11, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP A Russian naval ship in Crimea was damaged in an airstrike by Ukrainian forces, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The landing ship … Read more
Ukrainian soldiers drive a tank in a position near to the town of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on December 13, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: It has been six months since Ukraine launched its much-anticipated counteroffensive with advanced weapons and training provided by the West. The Eastern … Read more
File picture of former Russian Prime Minister, and one of opposition leaders, Mikhail Kasyanov, center, attending a march in Moscow, Russia | Photo Credit: AP Russia’s Justice Ministry on Friday added Mikhail Kasyanov, who was President Vladimir Putin’s first prime minister but then became one of his opponents, to its register of “foreign agents.” Russian … Read more
Daily Quiz | On various conflicts raging around the world 1 / 5 | Following the February 2021 coup by the Tatmadaw (the Myanmar junta), the pro-democracy opposition in the country have launched an insurrection that has included an armed struggle as well. Name the prime minister of the National Unity of Government in exile. … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The Russian military said a Ukrainian missile strike on a shipyard in annexed Crimea had damaged a Russian ship. The Russian Defence Ministry said late Saturday that Ukrainian forces fired 15 cruise missiles at the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch, a city in the east of the Crimean … Read more
Some U.S. foreign policy experts believe that Mr. Campbell’s move to the State Department will help maintain momentum for some of Mr. Biden’s initiatives in the Indo Pacific. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden, on Wednesday, announced that he had nominated his Indo-Pacific policy chief Kurt Campbell for the Deputy Secretary of … Read more
Representational file image of rescue workers | Photo Credit: REUTERS A dozen people were wounded, including a 27-year-old woman and her nine-month-old baby, in a Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, its governor said on Sunday. “The Kherson region experienced another terrible night,” Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on the Telegram messaging app. … Read more
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Lviv, Ukraine, on September 19, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP “Russia struck three industrial warehouses in a drone strike on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv early on September 19, causing a huge … Read more