More than two and a half years after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s economy shows surprising resilience.

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China is courting Thailand. Former Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation Jennifer Ewbank weighs in on why the relationship matters.

Russia, Iran, China and North Korea — the so-called Axis of Authoritarians — are aligning to challenge the West and change the world order.

At a moment when competition with China tops the list of concerns for the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), the man in charge ...

As Russian forces make slow but steady gains in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region – recently seizing Vulhedar, a coal mining ...

Officials see a range of election interference ploys - some aimed at Trump, some at Harris, and most just looking to disrupt ...

Jean-Thomas Nicole, Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada, reviews On Freedom by Timothy Snyder in The Cipher Brief.

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Whose analysis do we trust? John Sipher says, be careful what to believe after failed predictions at the start of the Ukraine war.

Many may have thought that the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was untouchable in Lebanon, and that an unprovoked Israeli attack on Nasrallah in Beirut was too high-risk, politically and otherwise.