Exposure to lead from mining probably lowered I.Q. levels in the empire, research has found. It might be the world’s first ...

Atmospheric lead pollution likely caused cognitive decline among citizens of the Roman Empire, according to research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

American freedoms and creativity have given rise to an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity throughout the world.

and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hold a news conference in Vienna in 2015 amid frustrated efforts to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war. Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A woman ...

Just after 6 a.m. Tuesday, an explosion shattered the morning quiet on a residential street in Russia’s capital. A bomb hidden in a scooter detonated, killing a senior military officer. Photos ...

With the Russia-Ukraine war nearing its fourth year, attention is turning to President-elect Donald Trump and how his return to power may affect the conflict. Trump looms as a distressing question ...

As a war criminal he was a legitimate target and had been named in a trial in absentia, the SBU said. Russia’s security service released a statement saying it had detained a 29-year-old man from ...

If you had walked the front lines in the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, you might have heard shouts in Ukrainian and Russian, perhaps mingled with voices speaking regional languages such as Buryat ...

The assassination of a top general in Moscow won’t improve their war effort, analysts and Western officials say. By Michael Schwirtz Michael Schwirtz has been a correspondent in both Moscow and ...

Inflation soared and GDP shrank by a third (see chart 1). The return of macroeconomic stability allowed the government and firms to war-proof their operations. One priority was to protect ...

For the first time, sanctions were also imposed on Chinese companies supplying components for drones and microelectronics for Russia's war effort, alongside Indian, Iranian, Serbian, and United ...

Russia is keen to disrupt, weaken or even divide NATO and one way of encouraging that might be to convince the U.S. that war is coming with the alliance in Europe and to ask America if it wants to ...