Iran Shifts Tactics to Use Covert Police, Tech to Crack Down on Protests

As protests in Iran enter a second month, authorities are using plainclothes security officers, digital surveillance and drones to target the demonstrations that are now characterizing the ...

Russia’s Top Ukraine Commander Sees Invasion Faltering in South, but Missile Strikes Take Toll on Ukraine

Russia’s top military commander in Ukraine signaled Moscow’s hold on the southern city of Kherson was weakening, and Ukraine said Russian strikes since last week had knocked out some 30% of its ...

Iran’s Loyal Security Forces Protect Ruling System That Protesters Want to Topple

The intensity of protests that have swept Iran over the past month, with calls to topple the Islamic Republic, have shaken the state. But in some ways, the country’s authoritarian clerical ...

China will never rule out seizing Taiwan by force, President Xi tells party congress

China will never give up the option of invasion to reunite Taiwan with the mainland, President Xi said yesterday as he launched the crucial Chinese Communist Party congress that will confirm his ...

Iran Protests Spread With Uprising at Prison

The protest movement sweeping Iran spread to a Tehran prison known as a symbol of political repression in a new challenge to the Islamic Republic, with detained dissidents chanting ...

At home and on the battlefield, seven self-inflicted traps are snaring Putin

Following the dramatic attack on the Crimea Bridge last weekend, Vladimir Putin was eager to wrench back the initiative. Since Monday Russia has hammered Ukrainian cities and infrastructure with ...

Some Unaccompanied Afghan Children in the U.S. Suffer Panic Attacks, Depression

Mahsa Zahrabi, an Afghan teenager who was evacuated to the U.S. on her own after being separated from her family at Kabul airport last year, was sleeping on the floor in her aunt’s unfinished ...

Tiny Taiwan can outfight Chinese ‘at close range’

Iran’s Supreme Leader Rails Against Protesters

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei doubled down Wednesday on his unsupported accusations that the uprising rocking Iran is orchestrated by the country’s foreign enemies, as authorities further ...

Putin Unleashes Barrage of Missiles on Ukrainian Civilian Areas

Drive for climate compensation grows after Pakistan’s floods

Every part of Rajul Noor’s life has been wrecked by this summer’s massive monsoon-driven floods. The 12-year-old girl’s family home is destroyed, as is the school that she loved. The friends she ...

Ukrainians Fear Russian Reprisals for Crimea Bridge Attack

With some prominent Russians calling for fierce reprisals after an explosion crippled Russia’s sole bridge to Crimea, the Kremlin on Sunday launched a barrage of rockets at Ukrainian civilian areas, ...

Decades of Nuclear Reactor Strikes Predate Ukraine Power Plant Crisis

Joe Biden’s support for Ukraine is no guarantee America’s allies will stick to the script

Listening to the unanswered Ukrainian guns it became clear that Russia is on the run