Carol J. Williams is a retired foreign correspondent with 30 years' reporting abroad for the Los Angeles Times and Associated Press. She has reported from more than 80 countries, with a focus on USSR/Russia and Eastern Europe.
“The Russian war machine will only stop when it runs out of fuel,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a gathering of Western security officials in Kyiv last month.
Zelensky was...
It is Putin’s world view that all land that has ever been under Russian rule is an inseparable part of his Russian Empire. That notion portends further aggressions if his attempts at violent conquest are appeased at the expense of Ukraine.
President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ended with no progress toward a ceasefire in the Ukraine war nor in persuading the Kremlin leader to...
President Donald Trump plunged the United States into Israel’s war with Iran on Sunday with a predawn barrage of mega-bombs targeting critical Iranian nuclear facilities.
The unilateral U.S. action dropped...
Ukraine’s audacious attack on Russia’s strategic bomber force, knocking out at least a third of the sophisticated planes slaughtering Ukrainian civilians, may not flip the script of Russia’s overpowering...
Putin is a master at delay-and-distract, the tactical maneuvering that has carried him through more than 11 years of an internationally condemned invasion of a peaceful and sovereign neighbor.
President Donald Trump has apparently decided that bringing peace to Ukraine is just too hard.
Even giving Russian President Vladimir Putin carte blanche to dictate the terms of any end...
Stock market plunges in every major index have prompted prominent economists and central bankers to warn a recession is looming for the European Union, the United States and most other countries of the developed world.
The increasingly aggressive approach of the Trump White House to acquiring the world’s biggest island has so offended Greenlanders and Danes that no one in the government or business communities wants anything to do with the United States.