It has been quite pleasant living on a planet where most of the great powers were not locked up into two hostile nuclear-armed alliances, but nothing lasts forever. Creeping shyly onto the stage ...
The first shipment of a sophisticated Russian surface-to-air missile system arrived in Turkey on Friday, the Turkish defence ministry announced, a process that is expected to incur US sanctions and wi...
The Ukrainian President has urged NATO to deploy naval ships to the Sea of Azov amid a standoff with Russia.President Petro Poroshenko made the call in an interview with the German daily Bild publishe...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he told the king and crown prince of Saudi Arabia on Monday that the Trump administration expects the kingdom to hold accountable 'every single person' responsib...
Can Donald Trump get any worse? Yes, he can. But our fixation on his personal awfulness, which was on full display at the UN on September 25, blinds us to the larger forces behind his Trumpery. Over t...
A dispute between Ukraine and Russia in which each accuses the other of violating laws of the sea escalated sharply on Sunday when the Ukrainian navy said the Russian military opened fire on several o...
By Andrew E. Kramer/ New York Times News Service
in Moscow
US President Donald Trump praised NATO countries for increasing their financial contributions to the Western alliance, but he hounded them to pay even more, saying America still shoulders a disproport...
It was a Nato anniversary celebration designed specifically to avoid unwanted disruptions.But those drama-free plans were upended on Tuesday when President Emmanuel Macron of France aggressively chall...
By Annie Karni/ New York Times News Service
in London
A once-cordial relationship between President Trump and President Emmanuel Macron of France devolved in a dramatic fashion on Tuesday, as the two leaders publicly sparred over their approach to contai...
By Katie Rogers and Annie Karni/New York Times News Service
in London