Tag: Russia

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani, appears at an event.

Beltway Confidential

Why Iran’s hardliners just aggressively threatened Israel

Tom Rogan · February 5, 2019 8:52 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visit a military technological center in Anapa, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. Putin said the new center would play an important role in developing advanced weapons technologies.

Russia races to develop new ground-based cruise missiles

Joel Gehrke · February 5, 2019 7:44 pm

Robert Mueller appears before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Chuck Grassley says he expects Mueller report ‘within a month’

Caitlin Yilek · February 5, 2019 2:36 pm

A report mentions that special counsel Robert Mueller (pictured left) may have a potential indictment would focus on the Russia-backed effort to steal and release emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

House Intelligence poised to send Mueller lingering Russia investigation transcripts

Diana Stancy Correll · February 4, 2019 11:02 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, speaks as he attends a conference on Afghanistan bringing together representatives of the Afghan authorities and the Taliban in Moscow, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018.

Russia accuses US of taking ‘egotistical approach’ to Taliban talks

Joel Gehrke · February 4, 2019 9:44 pm

A view of what was a shariah law court run by Islamic State militants is seen in the town of Okeirbat, northern Hama province, Syria, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. Syrian government forces recaptured the strategic town in the northern Hama province earlier this month.

National Security

Pentagon’s internal watchdog warns that ‘battled-hardened and well-disciplined’ ISIS ‘could likely resurge’ in Syria

Jamie McIntyre · February 4, 2019 5:03 pm

Summer Zervos and Donald Trump.

Trump won’t commit to releasing Mueller report to public

Daniel Chaitin · February 3, 2019 7:55 pm

President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, during an event with the American Legion Boys Nation and the American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation.

Beltway Confidential

INF folly: Leaving landmark arms control deal is bad for US security

Erin Dunne · February 3, 2019 11:00 am

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing, China, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Beijing for the Winter Olympics and talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, amid soaring tensions with Ukraine.

Beijing: No expansion of INF treaty to cover China

Joel Gehrke · February 2, 2019 3:32 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, attends a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.

Russia to pull plug on nuclear arms pact after US does same

Associated Press · February 2, 2019 1:44 pm

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, Chief of General Staff of Russia Valery Gerasimov, background center, and special representative on questions of ecology and transport, Sergei Ivanov, right, talk to each other as they come to oversee the test launch of the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle from the Defense Ministry's control room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. In the test, the Avangard was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains. The Kremlin says it successfully hit a designated practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) away.

Beltway Confidential

The last thing we need is two nuclear superpowers untethered to any restrictions

Daniel DePetris · February 1, 2019 10:36 pm

Venezuelan politician Nicolas Maduro speaks at an event.

Beltway Confidential

How the US can stop Maduro from stealing Venezuela’s gold

Tom Rogan · February 1, 2019 10:36 pm