President Donald Trump is threatening to impose stiff taxes, tariffs and sanctions on Russia if an agreement isn’t reached to ...

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The United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom have imposed over 20,000 restrictions and sanctions on Russia, ...

French Army/AP/picture alliance Following the fall of dictator Bashar Assad, there is uncertainty over the future of Russia's military bases in Syria. The naval base in Tartus and the airbase in ...

British wartime leader Winston Churchill once said he was an optimist, as there was no point being anything else. The year ...

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...

The grocery store that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin once visited during his trip to Houston in 1989 is now closed for good. The Food Town in Webster, formally a Randall's when Yeltsin ...

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Russia’s withdrawal from Syria played a crucial role in the collapse of the al-Assad regime. Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration, wrote in a Wall Street Journal ...

While George F Kennan, the architect of US Containment policy, lived beyond 100 years to see his strategy succeed, it was Carter who laid the foundation of the actual collapse of the Soviet Union.

Russia has withdrawn the majority of its forces from Syria, weeks after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Vladimir Putin’s troops have vacated key positions, including the Qamishli base in northern ...