United States of America; Russia

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Congress reaches deal on Russia sanctions, tying Trump’s hands

Global Politics

The US Congress is poised to approve tough new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea this week after reaching a compromise deal, which the White House indicated Sunday it could support.

US strike on Syria

Syrians who have lived under Assad’s bombs celebrate US missile strike

Conflict
Senate hearing cybersecurity hack

Watch: Full Senate hearing on Russian hacking and US cybersecurity

Conflict
Trump is coming.

A Trump-filled Christmas in cartoons

Media
Former director of the NSA and CIA, Michael Hayden, at a cyber security conference in 2014

Former CIA chief calls Trump ‘Moscow’s useful idiot’

Global Politics
Russia Syria aid carnage

When post-fact Russia meets Donald Trump’s ‘truthful hyperbole’

Global Politics

What is real and what is fake now seems the dominant theme of world politics. Here’s what it means for perceptions about Syria among two very different world powers.

Obama press conference

Watch Obama’s last press conference of 2016

Media

President Barack Obama, who has vowed to retaliate against Moscow over its election cyber-meddling, faces the media Friday as tensions soar with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.