The Race to Be the Next Supreme Leader Will Be Chaotic and Perilous For most of the last nine months, outside analysts have looked to Iran’s protests for signs that the country might experience political change. These demonstrators, the vast majority of them young, certainly rocked the country’s elite with …

Never one to mince words, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the brash founder of the notorious Russian mercenary company Wagner Group, offered the latest in a series of often profane criticism of Russian military commanders in a video published on May 9. Prigzohin complained about supplies of ammunition to his fighters, who have …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited troops on the front line in the eastern Donetsk region as fighting appeared to cease around Russia’s Belgorod region a day after armed fighters from inside Ukraine launched one of the largest cross-border incursions since the start of the war. The Russian Defense Ministry on …