From Bohdan Khmelnytsky to Ivan Mazepa, there were no hetmans.' This old, hyperbolic Ukrainian saying shows just how large ...

Charles XII invaded Russia with 44,000 men, believing the veteran Carolean army that had repeatedly crushed larger enemies could finally force Peter the Great into submission. At Poltava in 1709, the ...

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin fires nuclear-capable missile that could reach US days after CIA chief’s visit - The defence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sweden has successfully thwarted a Russian operation aimed at "discrediting Sweden, NATO and the EU," the Swedish Security Service ...

The deadly strikes are part of a long-running maritime battle with Ukraine and echo battles over other key shipping routes around the world. By Marc Santora Reporting from Odesa, Ukraine As families ...

More than 2,000 people in Finland are participating in the largest civil defense drill in Europe since the end of World War ...

Aug 9 (Reuters) - Syria and Russia reached a memorandum of understanding to settle the future of Russian bases at Tartous and Hmeimim following 18 ‌months of intensive negotiations, the Syrian foreign ...

Last month Russian military officers flew from St. Petersburg to the country’s Kaliningrad exclave nestled between two NATO countries and the Baltic Sea. There the officers oversaw readiness planning ...

Ukraine will be able to strike Russia with domestically-made ballistic missiles within three to six months, the former Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov told CBS News in an exclusive ...

An 18-year-old carried out a sword attack at a school on Friday in central Sweden, killing a 17-year-old and wounding three others, two of them severely, authorities said. The perpetrator attacked the ...

Russian tanks have entered battle for the first time with a new active protection system designed to shoot down incoming drones. But the technology’s recent combat debut in Ukraine met with only ...

In Moldova, Moscow paid Orthodox priests, conducted a vote-buying scheme and set up training camps on election interference — all in an effort to derail the Western-leaning government. By Michael ...