On Thursday, Turkey will host the first direct peace talks between Ukraine and Russia since 2022, a meeting Putin proposed on Saturday at the same time that he refused a 30-day ceasefire, despite an ...

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

Boosting defence spending is a task for all NATO members willing to close gaps with allies, ministers from historic ...