You may have thought that right after the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, there would be no chance of combat between the ...

He is poised to continue this game of pretending to seek peace while waging war for months. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In what was largely a formality, Vladimir Putin was confirmed in office in the Russian presidential elections with 52.9% of ...

Hecker’s story is a grizzly odyssey. The book is full of crisp soundbites. One I liked best, towards the end of the book, quotes someone saying that Russia has become, not an emerging economy, but a ...

For too long, we in the West have underestimated Putin’s global ideological vision as an animating force for his foreign-policy agenda. The tragic consequence is that today Putinism is advancing ...

But how can Trump do such a thing? How can he switch off military support for Ukraine – and then look those casualties in the face? Yesterday the people of Ukraine woke to survey the wreckage ...

US and West European capitalism expanded to the east, becoming oligarchic and kleptocratic in Boris Yeltsin’s Russia, which Vladimir Putin took over from 1998. The dissolution or limitation of ...

Boris Johnson says Donald Trump is the only man who has the capability to perusade Vladimir Putin into signing a peace deal with Ukraine. In his Daily Mail column, the former Prime Minister ...

If the absolute worst should happen, Ukrainian fighters could choose to play a different hand: insurgency. I have studied asymmetric wars around the world for 20 years, and insurgency is the ...

BALTIMORE — When someone loses a hand, today’s prosthetic options force painful compromises. Rigid prosthetics offer strength but can’t handle delicate objects gently. Soft robotic alternatives ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...