MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, who also served as an ambassador to NATO, discuss the latest on the war in Ukraine.

Trump's threat against Russia runs parallel to a Senate-led effort to pass crippling sanctions on countries that buy Russian energy.

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Exiled Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan tell Newsweek about Vladimir Putin's crackdown and their book "Our Dear Friends In Moscow."

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has confiscated assets worth 3.9 trillion roubles, or around $50 billion at current exchange rates, over the past three years, underscoring the scale of the transformation into a "fortress Russia" economic model, the Kommersant newspaper said.

U.S. President Donald Trump accused Russian President Vladamir Putin of talking "nice" and then "bombing everybody in the evening" as Russia continues to batter Ukraine with intense air attacks.

After Iran’s Parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, Beijing’s foreign-affairs spokesperson stressed—in what looked like a warning to Iran —that the Persian Gulf is a crucial global trade route for goods and energy, and called for partners to “prevent the regional turmoil from having a greater impact on global economic growth.”