Cold War

The Gulf’s Cold War: How Saudi-UAE rivalry is tearing the region apart - opinion

At its core, the Saudi-UAE feud reflects fundamentally incompatible visions of regional order.

 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives The President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 16, 2022.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with US Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg as they meet, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 14, 2025.

Outgoing US Special Envoy Keith Kellogg says Ukraine-Russia peace deal is 'really close'

 A person holds a cut-out depicting late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as protesters, predominantly Houthi supporters, demonstrate to show solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and to condemn the U.S. strikes in Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen April 11, 2025.

On This Day: IDF soldier fatally shoots Hamas arch-terrorist, Oct. 7 mastermind, Yahya Sinwar

ARIEL SHARON visits the Temple Mount in 2000.

How the Second Intifada built the walls that failed on October 7 - analysis


Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91

Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the US and partnerships with the West to remove the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe since World War II.

 Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev^makes an impression with his hands in cement as he visits the former Berlin Wall border crossing point Checkpoint Charlie, in Berlin November 7, 2014.

Fugitives: Cold War Nazi mercenaries who escaped justice - review

The US, USSR ‘forgave’ Nazi officials who could assist in Cold War spying conflict.

 MEMBERS OF Jewish organizations protest the sheltering of convicted Nazi criminal Alois Brunner by Syrian president Hafez Assad, 1998. The protest was near the Syrian Embassy in France, during a visit there by Assad.

Say goodbye to tank battles and dogfights in a 21st century war- analysis

Despite upgrading their militaries over the years, the war in Ukraine is being primarily fought against Russians using aging Soviet weapons and platforms.

 Ukrainian tanks move on a road before an attack in Lugansk region on February 26, 2022.

On Human Fraternity Day we should call out extremism in all its forms

It is time that moderates from different cultures and religions pool their energies and start making their own, more constructive noise. This would be the greatest realization of human fraternity.

 POPE FRANCIS greets visitors during the weekly general audience at the Vatican last Wednesday. He is an honorary recipient of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity.

South Korea's former president Roh Tae-woo dies at 88

Roh Tae-woo, the former South Korean president and decorated war veteran who played a pivotal but controversial role in the country's transition to democracy, died on Tuesday at the age of 88.

Former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo

On This Day: 35 years since US-USSR Reykjavik Summit for nuclear talks

Though the summit ended when talks fell through, the progress it achieved led to the signing of the INF treaty between the US and USSR.

 General secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev (left) and US president Ronald Reagan (right) during their summit meeting in Reykjavik.

N.Korea drops out of Tokyo Olympics citing COVID-19, dashing S.Korea hopes

It will be the first time North Korea has missed a Summer Olympics since it boycotted Seoul in 1988 amid the Cold War.

South Korean people watch a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Seoul, South Korea, April 21, 2020

Soviet labor camp found where monument of Stalin once stood in Prague

It's been almost 60 years since the 51-foot statue of Stalin was brought down.

A woman walks past a bust of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in an exhibit dedicated to the Battle of Stalingrad

Russia has begun spaceplane project, says Soviet shuttle designer

"The goal has now been set and the development of a multi-use civilian complex with an orbital plane is in full swing," Olga Sokolova was quoted as saying in comments posted on Molniya's website.

View of Earth  from the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting Earth in an image taken by NASA astronaut Christopher J. Cassidy August 19, 2020

Russia names new COVID-19 vaccine 'Sputnik V' in reference to Cold War

The speed at which Russia is moving to roll out the vaccine has prompted some international scientists to question whether Moscow is putting national prestige before solid science and safety.

Scientists develop a vaccine against the coronavirus disease in Saint Petersburg