Putin, the Russian president, has long sought to restore his country’s sphere of influence in eastern Europe along ... from former Soviet and communist-bloc countries that joined the alliance ...

The bloc announced new steps to prevent threats to undersea lines after Sweden discovered damage to one east of Gotland island ... to retaliate against NATO countries that have supported Ukraine.

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid advance ...

Image A Ukrainian soldier on the front line in the Dnipro region of eastern Ukraine last month.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times That will require European countries to shoulder a much ...

You only have to look at a map of Germany to see ... The wall came down amid unrest in East Germany and a wave of revolutions in the countries of the Soviet bloc. The Soviet Union eventually ...

And there are a few reasons that this might hit closer to home in Europe than in the United ... least some dissident movements across the Eastern Bloc in the latter half of the 20 th century.

European fears about the U.S. pulling its troops from the continent have been brewing for some time, with the head of the ...

In vast swaths of the country’s east, the far-right party won upward of 40 percent of the vote, flooding the electoral map an electric ... collapse of the Soviet bloc, the selling-off of the ...

requesting that NATO withdraw its forces from all countries that joined after 1997, most of the former Eastern Bloc countries that became members after the end of the Cold War. The Biden ...

invited armies from countries such as Angola and Zimbabwe to fight rebels backed by Uganda and Rwanda. Rwandan and Ugandan military involvement in eastern Congo could provoke the entry of other ...

A handful of young participants sit at a table in the middle of the stage. A map of central and eastern Europe is splayed across the top, littered with green and red markers. Sliding scales at ...