Friday’s attack was among the most serious targeting foreign citizens since foreign forces left and the Taliban took over in 2021.
Russia’s weeklong offensive in northeastern Ukraine is setting alarm bells ringing in Kyiv as President Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals rush to shore up their defences.
Moscow and Beijing say they will expand their joint military exercises, conduct regular joint maritime and air patrols and work together on space programmes.
Bilateral trade, an important lifeline to Russia since it invaded Ukraine, is already at a record US$240 billion, with China its largest customer for crude oil.
Was it guitar-hero time? Or a tone-deaf attempt at wartime solidarity? US Secretary of State Antony Blinken garnered some mixed reviews in the Ukrainian capital after busting out his ’80s-rock chops at a Kyiv bar.
The leader was due to visit Spain and Portugal, but the visits are on hold as Kyiv faces what analysts describe as one of its most perilous moments in the war.
Blinken’s unannounced trip to Kyiv comes just weeks after US Congress finally approved a US$61 billion financial aid package for Ukraine after months of political wrangling.
David McBride’s leaks to the media led to revelations about Australian soldiers’ involvement in the illegal killings of unarmed Afghan men and children.
Andrei Belousov, Russia’s new defence minister, has three great passions – art, the state and President Vladimir Putin.
“A Summer in the Red Scarf” tells the love story between two teen boys at a Soviet pioneer camp. Despite its success, the book’s authors were forced to flee Russia amid a crackdown on LGBTQ propaganda.
Russia’s defence ministry on Sunday claimed its troops had made deeper advances in the Kharkiv border region, ‘liberating’ a total of nine settlements over the weekend.
Several thousand Georgians gathered outside parliament in Tbilisi on Sunday night in a fresh protest against a Russian-styled ‘foreign agent’ bill.
Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better utilise the defence budget and harness greater innovation to win in Ukraine.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin visits China, many have predicted he will discuss the slow progress on the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline. Is the marquee project, watched closely by the West, still a go?
Moscow is making small advances in an area it was pushed back from in 2022, pressing its advantage amid delays in Western aid.
Authorities and non-governmental groups have deployed rescuers and aid, warning that some areas have been cut off.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a “fierce battle” was under way after Moscow launched a surprise new offensive on Friday morning.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin was reappointed as head of the country’s government on Friday.
Head of State Protection Department was dismissed after two of his officers were detained for allegedly passing secret information to Russia’s FSB security service.
Russian president uses to speech to warn that his nuclear forces were ‘always’ on alert and that Russia would not tolerate any threats from the West.
The May 9 parade marks the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II and has become one of Russia’s most important public holidays.