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...
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....
FiSyria, the website close to the Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham’s Chechen military Amir Umar Shishani, has posted a Russian-subtitled video in which an ISIS fighter talks about outreach and conflict with insurgent factions in Syria: It is not clear exactly when the video was...
Even as it is proclaiming a political strategy of “reconciliation” through local truces and aid to civilians, the Assad regime has renewed its long-standing siege on the Damascus suburb of Moadamiya. Activists said that the Syrian military is demanding that Free Syrian Army...
