As US legislators debate further aid for Ukraine, countless men and women have paid the ultimate price to defend their country from Russian aggression - and to prevent Moscow from making further territorial grabs.
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Is UNRWA past its ‘sell by’ date? I explore some of the options after the main UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees gets accused of being too close to Hamas
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On CNN Newsroom, I spoke with host Fredricka Whitfield about the Battle for Bakhmut, and what Ukraine says it needs to achieve victory
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When the war in Ukraine finally comes to an end, the besieged city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine will go down as one of the most recognizable symbols of the conflict.
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After one year of war, the owners of Ukraine’s small and medium-sized businesses are struggling. Millions of displaced Ukrainians has created a smaller customer base and fewer staff. And yet the central government has hardly taken a notice of their pain.
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Ukraine needs to fight two wars simultaneously: one against Russian aggression and the other against corruption. Though some feel not enough effort is being given to the latter.
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Nothing prepared me for what I have witnessed in Odesa. Eerily quiet streets, closed roads, tank traps and military checkpoints, deserted beaches, near-empty restaurants and bars. Last year, more than 3 million tourists visited the city. This year you're more likely to find war correspondents, aid workers and diplomats in its seaside hotels.
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As long as Moscow has the ability to send deadly long-range cruise missiles anywhere onto Ukrainian territory, no city, town or village can be declared safe.
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's relatively new strategy to publicly name and shame countries that Kyiv believes to be sitting on the diplomatic fence appears to be his way to leverage soaring global popularity.
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On Wednesday, a pregnant woman and three children were among the 27 who died trying to cross the English Channel in an inflatable dinghy that capsized. The International Organization for Migration said the tragedy marked the single biggest known loss of life on the busy waterway since it began collecting data in 2014. Michael Bociurkiw breaks down the situation.
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If the Myanmar generals get their way, the number of people living under military rule, together with those in Thailand, in that corner of Southeast Asia will almost double to about 124 million people. That is a prospect ASEAN, and the broader international community, must prevent at all costs.
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The return of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny home: was it a brave move or a miscalculation?
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How will the world react to the recently-concluded US elections? A international panel of nine experts were selected to provide commentary for CNN Opinion
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With the German government's announcement Wednesday of "unequivocal evidence" that the nerve agent Novichok was used in the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, we are once again reminded how a vacuum in global leadership -- notably, in this instance, the silence of the American President -- can potentially open the way for the world's strongmen to reach for the deadliest means to silence their critics.
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How Justin Trudeau's latest ethics scandal could spell the end of his career
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