By PETER LEONARD Almost every building was gravely damaged, nearly every window smashed in this Ukrainian town left unrecognizable by months of relentless shelling. Children played in the rubble where…
By PETER LEONARD and DALTON BENNETT Rebel fighters, many of them Cossacks, roamed the streets of Debaltseve on Thursday, a day after Ukrainian forces began withdrawing from the besieged town.…
By PETR JOSEK and PETER LEONARD A cease-fire that went into effect Sunday in eastern Ukraine appeared largely to be holding, although continued fighting over a bitterly contested railway hub…
By BALINT SZLANKO Fierce fighting surged in east Ukraine as Russian-backed separatists mounted a major and sustained new push Friday to capture a strategic railway hub ahead of a weekend…
Ukraine’s president pushed Saturday for a quick cease-fire in his country’s troubled east, insisting that the conflict must be resolved and not “frozen,” and pressed Kiev’s case to be supplied…
By MATTHEW LEE and SYLVIE CORBET Carrying a peace plan that reportedly incorporates proposals from Russia, the leaders of Germany and France met Thursday with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in…
By AHMED AL-HAJ Heavy clashes erupted near the presidential palace in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Monday as Shiite rebels battled soldiers and seized control of state-run media in a move…
By LARA JAKES Secretary of State John Kerry is ending 2014 much in the same way he started it, frustrated in efforts to push Israel and Palestinians toward peace. With…
