Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we’re still recovering from the lingering post-Thanksgiving food coma. Here’s what’s on tap for the day: Some key questions for the U.S. ...
Amid rising expectations of a negotiated end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladmir Putin declared last week that “nothing has changed.” He reiterated his maximalist demands for a ...
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed Syrian militia group led by Syrian Kurdish forces, said on Tuesday that its fighters clashed with Syrian government troops and took control of ...
Last week, Syrian rebels led by the Sunni Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a surprise offensive, capturing significant parts of Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities, and advancing ...
In November, two watershed moments changed the global geopolitical landscape. For the first time, North Korean troops showed up on the battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine war. Shortly afterward, the Danish ...
An anonymous North Korean military source claimed to the specialized outlet Daily NK on Thursday that the communist regime had adopted a policy of “strict secrecy” surrounding soldiers allegedly dying ...
“Don’t go down there,” warned Andrei, a Ukrainian police paramedic, as he stubbed out his cigarette and scratched his beard. He and his boss, another paramedic named Andrei, then got ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has famously promised to end Russia’s war in Ukraine on his first day in office, but he has been characteristically vague on how he will do ...
One of the bleakest places on Earth today is the central processing facility for the remains of dead soldiers in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, the logistical hub of Russia’s ...
A senior North Korean officer has been injured in the Ukraine war for the first time, and possibly by a British-supplied Storm Shadow bunker-buster cruise missile, it is claimed. North ...