In terms of geopolitical bromances, this is it. David Pierson, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times covering China, explains how President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping, the leader of China, are closer than ever before. Source link
India said early Wednesday that it had conducted strikes on Pakistan, two weeks after a deadly terror attack killed more than two dozen civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir. To understand the conflict between the two nuclear-armed countries, New York Times senior writer Katrin Bennhold spoke with our South Asia bureau chief, Mujib Mashal, to get his […]
A week after a deadly terrorist attack in Kashmir, diplomatic efforts to ease rising tensions between India and Pakistan have ramped up, as global jitters grow over the possibility of a military confrontation between the nuclear-armed neighbors. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio held separate conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan and […]
For months, Moscow and Pyongyang had been vague about the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia’s war against Ukraine, even after Kyiv publicly paraded two North Korean soldiers its forces had captured. Then, in back-to-back statements, the leaders of the two countries confirmed that North Korean troops have been fighting shoulder to shoulder with […]
Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli military said in a statement that it had also struck in southern Lebanon and killed a Hezbollah operative who “advanced Hezbollah’s attempts to re-establish itself” in the area. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the top United Nations official in Lebanon, criticized the attack near the capital on Sunday. “Today’s strike on the southern […]
Pakistan’s military said on Sunday that it had killed 54 militants trying to infiltrate the country from Afghanistan, highlighting the challenges its forces face on multiple fronts as tensions with India also rise rapidly. The operation against the fighters from Afghanistan took place on Friday and Saturday nights in North Waziristan, a remote district along […]
The last time the perpetual tensions between India and Pakistan escalated into a face-off, Indian officials were forced to confront an uncomfortable reality: The country’s huge military was bloated, antiquated and underprepared for imminent threats at its borders. The humiliating downing of an Indian jet by Pakistan in 2019 injected new urgency into India’s modernization […]
Pakistan’s defense minister on Friday declared his country’s innocence in a terror attack that killed 26 people this week in disputed Kashmir territory controlled by India, and said that an international investigation into the attack was needed. In an interview, the minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, said that the country was “ready to cooperate” with “any […]
When the Trump administration proposed a peace plan that would recognize Russian rule of the Crimean peninsula, the response from Kyiv was a loud and unequivocal no. Doing so would violate the nation’s Constitution, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine told reporters. It would never happen, he declared, not even in exchange for the end of […]
Ten years ago, when former President Barack Obama and other leaders reached a deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program, Saudi Arabia was dismayed. Saudi officials called it a “weak deal” that had only emboldened the kingdom’s regional rival, Iran. They cheered when President Trump withdrew from the agreement a few years later. Now, […]
