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Russia is refusing to attend an Arab League-hosted meeting on Syria, and experts warn its stance could embolden Iran to stand firm against the West. The US meanwhile softened its stance on arming the opposition.

The Obama administration, which has firmly rejected calls to arm the Syrian opposition, appeared at least to allow for the possibility Tuesday by emphasizing that “additional measures” might have to be considered if President Bashar al-Assad...

Michael Cohen has a great piece up at Foreign Policy, in which he takes to task all those - from President Obama to neocon hacks - who want to argue that America's military primacy means it isn't in any kind of decline when measured against the...

China, Russia and Iran all made declarations of support for the Syrian government, reaffirming their alliances in the face of broad international lobbying for unity against President Bashar al-Assad.

It may appear to the unobservant that an attack on Iran has faded somewhat into the background but the level of back-and-forth threats, PR maneuvering and back-channel messaging continues to intensify on a fast and furious track with fears of a...

Just months after Twitter and Google failed to reach an agreement for Realtime Search, the microblogging site has inked a deal with Russian search engine firm Yandex.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will command the International Space Station in 2013.

Twitter content is one step closer to being integrated into web search — in Russia, at least. Yandex, Russia’s largest web portal, a…

Twitter content is one step closer to being integrated into web search — in Russia, at least. Yandex, Russia’s largest web portal, a…

Syrian government forces appeared to be preparing for a ground assault on Homs yesterday after more than 60 people were killed across the country, many of them in one of the fiercest artillery barrages on the city in days.