Cold War

Outgoing US Special Envoy Keith Kellogg says Ukraine-Russia peace deal is 'really close'

Those proposals, which Russia now says contain 27 points, have been split up into four different components, according to the Kremlin. The exact contents are not in the public domain.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with US Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg as they meet, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 14, 2025.
 A person holds a cut-out depicting late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as protesters, predominantly Houthi supporters, demonstrate to show solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and to condemn the U.S. strikes in Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen April 11, 2025.

On This Day: IDF soldier fatally shoots Hamas arch-terrorist, Oct. 7 mastermind, Yahya Sinwar

ARIEL SHARON visits the Temple Mount in 2000.

How the Second Intifada built the walls that failed on October 7 - analysis

Police officers surround a pro-Israel supporter during a protest in London in July 2025.

Third Worldism: When anti-colonial dreams became Western self-loathing - opinion


How Nazi scientists were welcomed around the world after the Holocaust

Ariel Gelblung, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Buenos Aires, speaks about the ways in which Nazi scientists, doctors, engineers, and technicians were able to find safe havens.

 Dr. Wernher von Braun

A new Cold War could break out soon, China warns at South Asian summit

Neither US President Joe Biden nor his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, is attending the summit.

 RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing last month.

For North Korea, US defectors can be a propaganda win, but a logistical pain

"In their daily lives, they couldn't go out for shopping in downtown Pyongyang by themselves, let alone travel abroad," Tae said of other US soldiers who defected decades ago.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un oversees a missile launch at an undisclosed location in North Korea, in this undated photo released on October 10, 2022 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Russia: as NATO returns to Cold War 'schemes,' we are ready to respond

The summit showed NATO's "inability to adapt to the new geopolitical situation in the world," the ministry said.

 Banners displaying the NATO logo are placed at the entrance of new NATO headquarters during the move to the new building, in Brussels, Belgium April 19, 2018.

The Six Day War: Six fateful days for Israel in 1967 - opinion

The Six Day War saw Israel achieve a momentous victory over its Arab enemies. The ramifications continue to impact the Jewish state to this day.

 FROM LEFT: Central Command head Uzi Narkiss, defense minister Moshe Dayan and IDF chief of staff Yitzhak Rabin walk through the Lions’ Gate into Jerusalem’s Old City in June 1967.

Honoring Henry Kissinger on his 100th birthday - opinion

Henry Kissinger remains the most consequential US foreign policy figure of the past century.

 THEN-PRESIDENT Shimon Peres awards Henry Kissinger with Israel’s Presidential Award of Distinction, in Jerusalem, in 2012.

Israeli gov't must consider state's value to the US - opinion

In the new reality, Israel has become a sought-after ally because of its experience in anti-terrorist activity.

 DEFENSE MINISTER Yoav Gallant meets with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at Ben-Gurion Airport, in March.

What's next for the US, China after the Biden-Xi summit? - opinion

The idea of a Cold War between the US and China is impossible, at least in the form that took place between Washington and Moscow during the Soviet era, for several reasons.

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, last month.

Russia: US lowering 'nuclear threshold' with newer bombs in Europe

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered the gravest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

 A still image from video, released by the Russian Defence Ministry, shows what it said to be Russia's Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launched during exercises held by the country's strategic nuclear forces at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, October 26, 2022.

Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91

Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the US and partnerships with the West to remove the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe since World War II.

 Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev^makes an impression with his hands in cement as he visits the former Berlin Wall border crossing point Checkpoint Charlie, in Berlin November 7, 2014.