At the start of his first term, President Donald Trump filled several top jobs with retired generals — high-ranking veterans ...

After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election Western governments rejected as ...

Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko just claimed yet another election victory. The rest of the world, including Australia, is not fooled. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Britain's foreign office on Monday said it had sanctioned six Belarus individuals and three defence sector firms, a day after a "sham election" in which autocrat Alexander Lukashenko won a seventh ...

MINSK -Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Jan 27 after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election that Western ...

Alexander Lukashenko, the autocratic leader of Belarus who claimed victory in another election derided as a sham, played a "dirty game" in releasing an American hostage to coincide with the ballot ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

President Donald Trump signed four executive orders on Monday that reverse several Biden administration initiatives related to the military and deliver on promises he made on the campaign trail.

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power.

Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a seventh consecutive term in office in an election denounced by the European Union and the exiled opposition. With his opponents ...

Belarusian President and presidential candidate Alexander Lukashenko visits a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus January 26, 2025. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina ...