Amy B. Zegart
Ukraine has brought home 200 soldiers held in Russian captivity in the latest prisoners of war (POW) exchange on March 5, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed releasing 200 Ukrainian POWs in exchange for the …
Does a video show an American destroyer that was damaged by Iranian missiles in Cypriot territory in the Mediterranean? No, that's not true: This footage is from 2017 and the damage pictured is not from a missile attack. The video clip shows the USS …
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) says Russian authorities are concealing the real scale of the country’s economic problems. According to the BND, Russia’s actual 2025 budget deficit was far higher than official figures.
While the Kremlin …
Does a photo show "Halach Boome," a real pilot from the Israeli Air Force who took out Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? No, that's not true: An online detection tool rated the image as 100% likely to be AI-generated, and it contains a …
More than 100 of the roughly 1,000 Ukrainian refugees living in Alaska have left the state after President Donald Trump paused a temporary stay program last year.
In January, Alaska’s Republican congressional delegation urged an extension of status …
Two points remain high on Ukraine's agenda: surviving the Russian onslaught and joining the European Union.
President Volodymyr Zelensky believes the two should be tied together, with his office proposing to engrave a set date for Ukraine's EU …
Caught between bellicose Russia and an unsteady U.S., Paris is expanding its nuclear arsenal and moving to strengthen European deterrence.
The EU's only nuclear power announced on March 2 that it would increase the number of its warheads from roughly …
Russia could halt gas deliveries to the European market ahead of schedule and pivot to more "premium" buyers, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin.
He stressed these were merely "thinking out loud" …
Editor’s note:
We’ve started a new Iran-focused sister-publication delivering real-time reporting on the war from neighboring Armenia and Iraq.
If you’re interested in The Counteroffensive’s human-centered perspective on the ongoing conflict with Iran, …
