Sanctions are the US’ weapon of choice in less than clear-cut international conflicts. Put in place on the pretext of protecting international peace and national interests, history shows their effect is more usually the opposite.

Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia’s second poorest nation, is sitting on a pile of gold, quite literally. For years, the bulk of profits from the colossal Kumtor Mine have been sent abroad. Now, a new government is trying to change that.

The West's favorite Belarusian opposition figurehead, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has been in Washington, asking lawmakers to impose sanctions on her country, in a bid to overthrow its embattled veteran leader, Alexander Lukashenko.

America has come back down to Earth. After years trying to sabotage the almost-complete, $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will link the gas fields of Siberia to consumers in Germany, Washington is dropping its objections.

Суд счёл, что действия полицейских противоречат кодексу чести правоохранителей. Троих сотрудников правоохранительных органов в Финляндии уволили после того, как вскрылась переписка в WhatsApp, в которой полицейские активно выражали поддержку украинскому батальону…

Iran is no longer in a hurry to conclude a nuclear deal with the US, and it has not budged an inch from its position.

Too many Americans don't understand the horrors of US regime-change operations.

There is no shortage of shady organizations, sketchy organizers, and other accounts that are clearly the fruits of the US’s investment.

President Joe Biden agreed on Monday to formally conclude the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, another step toward winding down the two prolonged military engagements that began in the years following the September 11 terror attacks.

Russia and China are betting that autocracy will beat democracy. That’s according to US President Joe Biden. But apart from generating headlines, his explosive claim seems to have little to do with the reality in either country.

A new open-source study concludes that Syrian insurgents carried out the Ghouta sarin chemical attack in August 2013. The explosive findings add to a growing body of public evidence that undermines US-led efforts to blame the Syrian government, which almost…

"The U.S. should first and foremost examine its own human rights issues, instead of wielding the big stick of sanctions, grossly interfering in other's internal affairs and creating division or confrontation," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian…

Global Affairs says in a report that Ottawa issued a brokering permit to a Canadian, or Canadian company, which sold weapons to Saudi Arabia amid the war in Yemen

Why doesn't the media implicate Israel in NSO Group's illegal spying?

"In the tranquility and normalcy, it was hard to believe that Gorvloka’s central areas were terrorized by Ukrainian-fired bombs just a few years prior. “Summer 2016 was last time city center was bombed,” Alexey would tell me later. “We still hear the shelling…

Five of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers are unavailable for deployment, leaving just one warship in the class capable of operations.

Crimean Tatars living on the peninsula called on Turkey to recognize the region as part of Russia. The head of the regional national-cultural autonomy of the Crimean Tatars Eyvaz Umerov made a corresponding statement. In his address to the Turkish authorities…

Bishop Spiridon (Gocha Abuladze) of Skhalta, previously involved in the Ninotsminda orphanage controversy, lashed out at the West and LGBTQ rights, and claimed that the EU and NATO integration is &…