We examine how Russia, despite its overwhelming military power, failed to win the First Chechen War. In this video, we trace the conflict from the initial invasion in 1994 to the eventual withdrawal ...

Smiling broadly and clad in military fatigues, young Iraqi Mohammed Imad's last TikTok post was in a field carved up with ...

A major investigation by Russian outlet Verstka has uncovered evidence of systemic executions, torture, and ‘zeroing out’ ...

Last month, da Empoli, who is an Italian Swiss essayist, followed it up with a nonfiction book, “The Hour of the Predator,” ...

More than three weeks after the murder of a young Chechen woman who had fled to Armenia to escape domestic violence, ...

Freed in a major prisoner swap, Aleksandra Skochilenko said “the values of freedom of speech, of peace, could be more ...

In fact, Putin has recently told the truth perhaps for the first time ever. Fighting is truly in the Russian genes. Looking at Russia (the muscovite tsardom and empire) reveals that periods of ...

Mohammed, known for religious conservatism, to start a separate female brigade shows that it is flexible in making tactical ...

One of Trump’s political strengths, da Empoli notes in his new book, is that he is never seen reading a book. The experts understand nothing, and he scorns them. In “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” one ...

A House of Dynamite (2025) is a thriller movie that tells a story of danger and politics. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Noah Oppenheim.

Learn how authoritarians such as Trump, Putin, and Musk operate like wolves as they try to dominate the global stage and tech ...