The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment.

The White House denied that President Trump was briefed on the classified assessment, even though his staff has been discussing the matter since March.

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Analysts have used other evidence to conclude that the transfers were most likely part of an effort to offer payments to Taliban-linked militants to kill American and coalition troops in Afghanistan.

A film about persecuted gay and lesbian Chechens uses digital manipulation to guard their identities without losing their humanity. The step raises familiar questions about nonfiction movies.

From Academy Award-nominated director David France (How to Survive a Plague, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson) comes Welcome to Chechnya, a powerful and eye-opening documentary about a group of activists risking their lives to confront the ongoing…

A small-time businessman became a key middleman for bounties on coalition troops in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence reports say. Friends saw him grow rich, but didn’t know how.

The complaint at the International Criminal Court is the first of its kind to challenge Beijing on its crackdown on Muslims, but China does not accept the court’s jurisdiction.

Vanished chief operating officer of fraud-hit payments group hinted at secret service links

Donald Trump has called for the extradition of a former MI6 agent Christopher Steele who was behind a controversial dossier about his alleged links to Russia.

Federal prosecutors urged a judge to reject a home confinement request by Ghislaine Maxwell, the confidant of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, saying she is skilled at hiding and had wrapped a cell phone in foil to attempt to evade detection by authorities.

If U.S. press reports are right, it would seem you could buy anything here, even killers. But the bazaaris—and the Kremlin—have a different version.

A prominent state-backed Russian hacking group was blamed by U.S., U.K. and Canadian government officials for ongoing cyber espionage against organizations involved in the development of coronavirus vaccines and other health-care-related work.

As we begin our coverage of the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, this story, by Paul Serran, will help readers get a good background on Maxwell, including her curious relationships with her father a…

Scores of Russia’s business and political elite have been given early access to an experimental vaccine against Covid-19, according to people familiar with the effort, as the country races to be among the first to develop an inoculation.

Russian efforts to interfere in the British political system were widely ignored by successive governments, according to a long-awaited report by Parliament.

The long-awaited report into the extent to which Russia has tried to influence UK democracy has been released - here are the key points