Germans say they want a powerful military and EU nuclear deterrent to replace US hegemony, discomfiting Russia.

It is difficult to determine how many foreigners have joined Russia's military. BBC Russian's analysis - which also looked at ...

First Syria, then Iran, and now Venezuela. Slowly, but surely, Vladimir Putin’s hopes of creating an alternative network of ...

It was only seven months ago, in May, that Maduro and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin to sign a treaty on strategic partnership and cooperation that stated that Russia and ...

Syrian troops are poised to attack towns in the north and east held by Kurdish fighters, sources familiar with the matter said, to pressure autonomy-minded Kurds into making concessions in deadlocked ...

A GLAMOROUS former Russian teacher has been accused of luring foreign fighters to the frontline in Ukraine. Polina ...

Polina Alexandrovna Azarnykh is accused of helping foreigners sign up to fight for Russia with lucrative contracts ...

The United States carried out major airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Saturday, following up on even larger ...

In this context, the task of demilitarising society and reunifying the country has posed a truly formidable challenge for ...

A BBC Eye investigation found that Azarnykh used a Telegram channel with around 21,000 subscribers to recruit young men, mainly from economically struggling countries such as Syria, Egypt and Yemen ...

A Ukrainian drone attack ignited a fire at an oil storage facility in Russia’s Volgograd region as Moscow and Kyiv intensify ...

The lightning U.S. operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro can be seen as both a benefit and a burden for ...