Steven Erlanger

It is difficult to see the war as anything other than a failure by the US to bend Iran to its will, with damaging strategic and economic implications for Washington still to play out.

It was supposed to be quick. Still, six months after the US and Israel launched powerful airstrikes on Iran, the conflict drags on. The Trump administration has replaced its military war with an economic one, but the result is likely to be no different, analysts said, with a lack of American clarity about goals, a decline in US credibility and a strategic defeat.

The populist emphasis on national identity and pride, rather than the sins of the past, finds a deep response in voters adrift in a world they no longer understand.

The yearning for a proud identity is particularly strong in the former East Germany, which was essentially annexed in a peaceful takeover in 1989; As

The populist emphasis on national identity and threats to it, real and imagined, finds a deep response in voters adrift in a world they no longer understand.

The rise of a far-right party in Germany , the Alternative for Germany , represents a skewing of history, fuelled by its own, sometimes imaginary vision of the past.

Moscow is “trying to break the will to support Ukraine and trying in a broader sense to change the security architecture of Europe,” one former NATO intelligence official says.

President Trump’s surprise decision to suspend sanctions on Russian diesel fuel stunned Ukrainian and European officials, who were meeting with U.S. envoys at an exclusive golf club near Miami.

WARSAW — With Russia intensifying efforts to destabilize European nations that support Ukraine, NATO's top military commander on Monday detailed a

Ukrainians and Europeans receive with bewilderment the decision of the USA to suspend the sanctions on Putin's fuel