Saudi Arabia has forced a Florida retiree to try to renounce his American citizenship after jailing him over social media posts critical of the kingdom’s crown prince, ...

Photographer Michael Robinson Chávez visits a city in Ukraine that was partly famous as a site for Russian travelers and intellectuals, but since 2022 has come under Russian attack.

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The long-awaited establishment of a US Consulate in Bengaluru is set to become a reality by January, US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti announced. This development addresses a significant gap ...

The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, has stressed his country is not bound by international obligations regarding the use of nuclear weapons. Russian ...

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.

Russian authorities have detained an Uzbekistan national on suspicion of killing a top general in a Moscow bomb attack, saying he had been recruited by Ukrainian security services. The detainee ...

The killing in the heart of Moscow of Vladimir Putin's general in charge of chemical weapons comes on the eve of the Russian president's traditional marathon end-of-year press conference.

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A top Russian general, Igor Kirillov, head of nuclear, biological, and chemical protection forces, was killed in a bomb blast outside his Moscow apartment. Ukraine's security service claimed ...

Russia said on Wednesday it had detained a man from Uzbekistan over the killing of a senior Russian general and his assistant in Moscow a day earlier. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who headed Russia’s ...