Russia paid a heavy financial price on Monday for its military intervention in neighboring Ukraine, with stocks , bonds and the ruble plunging as President Vladimir Putin's forces tightened their grip on the Russian-speaking Crimea region. The Moscow stock...
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops that took part in military exercises this week to return to base, Russian news agencies quoted the Kremlin spokesman as saying, according to Reuters news agency The military exercises, which Moscow denied were linked to events in Ukraine,...

FOR FIVE YEARS, President Obama has led a foreign policy based more on how he thinks the world should operate than on reality. It was a world in which “ the tide of war is receding ” and the United States could, without much risk, radically reduce the size of its armed forces....