The United States is reducing its efforts to prevent war and violence, while the level of armed conflict around the world and the risk to the United States continue to increase, argues the annual ...

President Donald Trump said Sunday he believes both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir ...

Security guarantees and economic proposals for Ukraine have seen progress, though the future of eastern Donbas remains ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was in no hurry for peace and if it did not want to resolve their conflict peac ...

The world continues to grow more violent and disorderly. According to CFR’s annual conflict risk assessment, American foreign policy experts are acutely concerned about conflict-related threats to U.S ...

The war in Ukraine started by Vladimir Putin enters 2026 following a year of slow territorial developments, as highlighted on a map by Newsweek. Russia has made big claims about its progress as it ...

In 2025, the world descended into a cycle of escalating violence, with civilians increasingly caught in the crossfire. As ...

The emerging U.S. brokered framework to end the war in Ukraine is being sold in some circles as the beginning of peace. It's not. At best, it's an armistice - a pause button on a brutal conflict that ...