It’s being said that oil resources are the route cause of the conflict. For the Russian government, petroleum is a tool that can be used to launch the country as...

What millions of words fail convey is often portrayed by a single picture and when all the words fail the express the visual magic at hand you turn to the colors and...

Olga Kaniskina of Russia has won the women’s 20-kilometer race walk gold medal in a dominating start-to-finish performance in wet conditions at the Beijing...

The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia _ a move followed swiftly by a new warning from...

Georgia’s president has told The Associated Press he does not believe Russia will fulfill its promise to withdraw from most of the country in the coming days.

Russia is countering a French push for immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia by circulating a competing U.N. Security Council resolution.

The price of oil fluctuated above $114 a barrel Wednesday, propped up by worries about tropical storms and heightened tension between Russia and the West, but hampered...

Norway’s Defense Ministry says Russia has informed it that it plans to cut all military ties with NATO.

President Bush says the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are part of Georgia and that the United States will work with allies to insure Georgia’s...

Russian forces on Wednesday built a sentry post just 30 miles from the Georgian capital, appearing to dig in to positions deep inside Georgia despite pledges to pull...

The Bush administration says Russian troops are beginning to withdraw from war-battered Georgia but that the pullback is not significant and needs to increase.

The Beijing Olympics have left the world’s human rights groups frustrated and angry _ convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses, and...

India’s Jitender Kumar lost to Russian pugilist Georgy Balakshin in the 51kg flyweight category in the Olympics boxing competition on Wednesday. After falling...

NATO foreign ministers strengthened their ties to Georgia and called for Russia to observe a ceasefire

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an...

A top Russian general says 64 of the country’s soldiers were killed and 323 wounded in this month’s fighting with Georgia.

A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint Wednesday, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans Wednesday to sign a deal to build a U.S. missile defense base on Polish soil, an agreement that has already prompted an...

Larisa Ilchenko of Russia has won the gold medal in the women’s 10-kilometer marathon swim, an event making its Olympic debut.

India has placed missile orders worth $2 billion with India-Russia military joint venture BrahMos, the firm’s managing director was quoted as saying by...