Blinken has spent much of the last month-and-a-half deeply engaged on the Gaza crisis, making two trips to the Middle East. Now, amid signs that a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas due to expire on Monday may be extended, Blinken is departing for Brussels for a NATO foreign ministers meeting.

Jens Stoltenberg says Nato will agree recommendations for Ukrainians; Russian losses in Avdiivka could account for one of most difficult months for Russia

Make way for someone else,” a new grass-roots movement demands as women challenge the official argument that the mobilized troops are needed in combat indefinitely.

The Russia-Ukraine war has reached 642 days, and there appears to have been little movement from both sides over the past few weeks. On Saturday, Russia resorted to launching a drone attack on Kyiv, killing five people.

The Ukrainian military commander warned of Russia's alliance with so-called "Axis of Evil" countries North Korea and Iran.

UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has launched a stringing criticism of Putin as the war between Russia and Ukraine wages on

Marianna Budanova undergoing treatment in hospital; Nato’s secretary general says it is ‘our obligation’ to supply Ukraine with weapons