The Taliban outlasted both the U.S.-led coalition and the Afghan National Army. It is now the de facto government of Afghanistan. Whether the West likes it or not, a terrorist group we spent decades ...

Ukraine's Military Intelligence reports a fire destroying Shahed kamikaze drone components including thermal imagers, ...

Assad, old alliances have crumbled, and global powers are figuring out their relationships with Syria’s new de facto leaders.

The administration is considering major new financial sanctions on energy, in part to give the new Trump team leverage in ...

Hossein Shamkhani, whose father is a senior figure in Tehran, has emerged as a major player in the supply of Iranian arms to ...

SPECIAL REPORT – In the last days of 2024, The Cipher Brief turned to our network of experts – who spend much of their time ...

A Russian delegation, led by Deputy Ministers Alexei Overchuk and Vitaly Savelev, arrived in Tehran on December 23 for key ...

It looks like a tribute to the 45th and 47th president's persistence under pressure — a quality always desirable in a ...

Trump has said he wants to end the conflict as quickly as possible, which would seemingly entail forcing Ukraine to accept a ...

The U.S. Navy rescued aviators downed “in an apparent case of friendly fire” over the Red Sea early Sunday, officials at ...

In the aftermath, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, condemned Assad’s fall as a foreign-orchestrated conspiracy, ...

Yevgeny Korenkov also noted an increase of 43% in supplies of fruits and vegetables from Tajikistan compared with last year ...