Though the knock-on effects are unclear, some military commentators have called the strike Russia's "Pearl Harbor." Hopes for direct peace talks, which resumed Monday, remain low.

US President Donald Trump is "open" to meeting his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts in Turkey, the White House said, after the two sides failed on Monday to make headway towards an elusive ceasefire.

The second round of talks was even shorter than the first and didn’t address any substantive issues to ending the three-year conflict.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov would sit down with Russian officials at the second round of peace talks on Monday.

At the USISPF Leadership Summit 2025, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick calls out the Indian government in a demeaning way for economically participating in BRICS or with member states of BRICS, especially Russia.

If the United States falls behind Russia and China in South Asia, it won’t just forfeit clean energy leadership—it will forfeit the future of nuclear diplomacy in the region. South Asia is racing to meet its rising power demand,

Russian and Ukrainian officials are due to sit down on Monday in the Turkish city of Istanbul for their second round of direct peace talks since 2022, but the two sides are still far apart on how to end the war and the fighting is stepping up.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: The Washington Post says Trump, MAGA have a two-tiered justice system