Friday’s terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow killed more than 100 people in a brutal crime against humanity. Many key facts are still unclear‚ and rest assured they will become only less clear as the Kremlin works to exploit the crisis domestically and abroad. Coming shortly after his latest sham election‚ the attack gave dictator Vladimir Putin a rallying cry one day after the Kremlin declared for the first time that Russia is in a “state of war” in...

Soon after Friday’s terrorist attack killed at least 137 people in Moscow‚ Russian pundits and politicians insinuated that the attackers had links to Ukraine. This came as little surprise. It has become standard for the Kremlin to blame Ukraine for Russia’s internal blunders and accuse it of making common cause with nefarious forces. In October‚ Russia asserted that antisemitic riots at Makhachkala airport in the Dagestan region were inspired by Ukraine. Moscow has also alleged that Kyiv and...

Three facts stand out as clear amid the lack of hard information about the perpetrators of Friday’s appalling terrorist attack on Russia‚ and all three shine a light on dangers inherent in the new multipolar world we now inhabit. The first is that‚ before the attack‚ Vladimir Putin dismissed a US warning that it was coming‚ both in public and to his top security officers. He called the American intelligence that Islamists were planning an assault on a large Russian venue...

The massive container ship that smashed into a high-traffic bridge in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ this morning had previously collided with infrastructure while docking‚ according to reports. Container ship DALI collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning‚ collapsing a portion of the bridge and resulting in what authorities suspect is a mass casualty event. According to previous reports‚ this is not the first time DALI has struck city infrastructure while...

A major bridge in the U.S. city of Baltimore collapsed on Tuesday after it was struck by a container ship‚ sending crossing vehicles into the Patapsco River below. Rescuers are searching for at least seven people in the water as authorities declared a state of emergency. The Francis Scott Key Bridge stretches over 1.6 miles and carries a portion of the Interstate 695 highway. The cargo ship that struck Key Bridge belonged to shipping giant Maersk.

Standing in front of a tank on the edge of the Gaza Strip‚ an Israeli general interrupted his speech on the war against Hamas to deliver a televised rebuke to Israel's political leaders. Brigadier General Dan Goldfus urged politicians "on all sides" to reject extremism and unite‚ avoiding a return to status quo before the outbreak of the conflict in October - when political divisions and months of protests had left Israel deeply polarized. "You must be worthy of us. You must be...