An expert warns Iran's IRGC leadership may flee to Russia amid regime instability after high-stakes U.S. negotiations collapsed and military fractures deepen.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has welcomed the test launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile as a key part of efforts to modernize the country’s nuclear forces.

Vladimir Putin hinted over the weekend that he foresaw the war in Ukraine coming to an end soon, while raising the prospect of talks with the EU to draw up new security arrangements for a post-war Europe.

With counter-drone technology losing effectiveness, Russia and Ukraine are shifting to deep strikes on each other's drone production sites to destroy them before launch.

A war game scenario by NATO allies involves Sweden facing a threat and Ukraine on hand to advise on drone warfare.

Russian forces are struggling to advance on the battlefield in the war against Ukraine despite some 25,000 wounded and dead a month.

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Sunday, with both sides reporting casualties from drone and artillery strikes carried out in the last 24 hours.

The Russian leader is caught between an increasingly unpopular war and shifting global headwinds