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HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR
In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›
AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST
The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›
A 92-YEAR-OLD BRITISH VETERAN HAS JUST OFFERED HIS SPARE ROOM TO SYRIAN REFUGEES
British armed forces veteran, 92, offers up his spare room to house desperate Syrian refugees... READ MORE›
A PROMISE THAT COULD SET THE WORLD ON A DANGEROUS PATH
The arms race also dictated that the Soviet Union respond with overwhelming retaliation against the United States, to quickly neutralize any further threat... READ MORE›
VLADIMIR PUTIN CONFIRMS RUSSIAN MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN SYRIA'S CIVIL WAR
Last week Syrian state television released images showing an advanced Russian-built armoured personnel carrier, the BTR-82a, in combat... READ MORE›
RUSSIA 'IS BUILDING MILITARY BASE IN SYRIA'
Syria is already home to Russia's only base outside the former Soviet Union a naval station in Tartus... READ MORE›
RUSSIA AND NATO 'ACTIVELY PREPARING FOR WAR'
The preparations include major military exercises by both Russia and Nato that appear designed exclusively to respond to one another's capabilities and potential war plans... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE: RUSSIAN TROOPS JOIN COMBAT IN SYRIA - SOURCES
Damascus denied Russians were involved in combat, but a Syrian official said the presence of experts had increased in the past year... READ MORE›
US AND CHINA NEGOTIATE ARMS DEAL FOR CYBERSPACE
Mr. Obama, who has said little about the United States' development of cyberweapons during his presidency, has begun to talk about it in recent days... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN MOVES IN SYRIA POSE CONCERNS FOR UNITED STATES
Stepped-up Russian military support for the Syrian government could pose a problem for the United States in several ways... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN TROOPS 'FIGHTING ALONGSIDE ASSAD'S ARMY AGAINST SYRIAN REBELS'
An unnamed activist with the Syrian rebel group the Free Syrian Army told The Times The Russians have been there a long time... READ MORE›
IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.
In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'
Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE›
SYRIANS FLEEING WAR FIND NEW ROUTE TO EUROPE VIA THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
Intriguingly, in 2013 a Facebook group which advises Syrians about how to reach Europe suggested that Norway's border with Russia was impenetrable... READ MORE›
EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM
Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... READ MORE›
IRAN TROOPS TO JOIN SYRIA WAR, RUSSIA BOMBS GROUP TRAINED BY CIA
At the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference Moscow was targeting Islamic State... READ MORE›
RUSSIA TO U.S.: TALK TO US ON SYRIA OR RISK 'UNINTENDED INCIDENTS'
Russia to U.S. talk to us on Syria or risk 'unintended incidents'... READ MORE›
NATO RETURNS ITS ATTENTION TO AN OLD ADVERSARY RUSSIA
I don't think we're in the Cold War again... READ MORE›
CLOSE MILITARY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST AT COLD WAR LEVELS
Black Sea encounter On 7 September, the Canadian frigate Toronto was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea with the plane coming within 300 metres... READ MORE›
WORLD FACES COLD-WAR-ERA THREAT LEVELS, SAYS FORMER MI6 CHIEF
Sir John Sawers says Moscow has shifted balance of power but criticises Boris Johnson's call for demo outside Russian embassy... READ MORE›
70 YEARS LATER HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED AMERICA
Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country... READ MORE›
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT MOCKS PUTIN IN FRONT OF UNITED NATIONS
On Monday the Ukrainian delegation pointedly left the hall when Russian President Vladimir Putin started speaking... READ MORE›
RUSSIA SAYS WILL RETALIATE IF U.S. WEAPONS STATIONED ON ITS BORDERS
MOSCOW WARSAW A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia's border would be the most aggressive U.S... READ MORE›
RUSSIA IS PUTTING WORLD PEACE AT RISK, SAYS PENTAGON CHIEF ASH CARTER
Carter left open the possibility that Russia's role in Syria could evolve into one the US can embrace... READ MORE›
RUSSIA POSITIONING TANKS AT SYRIA AIRFIELD
Russia positioning tanks at Syria airfield U.S. officials... READ MORE›
NATO LAUNCHES LARGEST AIRBORNE DRILLS IN EUROPE SINCE END OF COLD WAR
It said the exercise marks the first time the US 82nd Airborne Division has operated in Europe since supporting Nato operations in Kosovo in 1999... READ MORE›
RUSSIA CONFIRMS IT HAS MILITARY ADVISERS IN SYRIA
Russian military specialists help Syrians master Russian hardware and we can't understand the anti-Russian hysteria about this said Maria V... READ MORE›
IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL US CONSERVATIVES CONDEMN AGREEMENT
US conservatives strongly criticise the deal reached between major world powers and Iran that limits Iranian nuclear activity in return for the lifting of sanctions... READ MORE›
RUSSIA COMPLAINS OVER 'GAY BAR' ON PRESIDENT'S PLOT IN FINLAND
The archipelago lies between Finland and Sweden, but one uninhabited property is owned by the Russian presidency, having once been owned by a German-Finnish couple... READ MORE›
AIR FORCE SENDING ADVANCED FIGHTERS TO EUROPE
The F-22 deployment comes in response to requirements from commanders in the region James and Air Force Gen... READ MORE›