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Author: BY DAVID E. SANGER AND ERIC SCHMITT - Publish Date: December 7, 2021 at 12:29AM President Biden will hold a high-stakes video call with Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Tuesday.

Author: BY MONIKA PRONCZUK AND STEVEN ERLANGER - Publish Date: November 16, 2021 at 12:43AM A confrontation at the Polish-Belarusian border, a funeral for a dead Syrian boy trapped in between and a new round of E.U. sanctions mark the struggle with Aleksandr G. Lukashenko.

Author: BY MAX FISHER - Publish Date: November 12, 2021 at 11:59PM Europe has long paid other nations to keep refugees away from its borders. Now, Belarus wants something, too, and has brought migrants right to Europe’s door to get it.

Author: BY VIVIAN YEE - Publish Date: October 28, 2021 at 01:28AM Negotiations on reviving the 2015 nuclear accord are to resume in November, but it is unclear if the United States will take part in them.

Author: BY LARA JAKES AND JULIE TURKEWITZ - Publish Date: October 20, 2021 at 01:21AM As Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to the region, the window of opportunity for a political resolution has slammed shut. At least for now.

Author: BY ALISSA J. RUBIN - Publish Date: September 22, 2021 at 01:58AM The Taliban spurned calls from the United Nations and big donors to include women in its new cabinet, but did add a few men from minority ethnic groups.

Author: BY MAX FISHER - Publish Date: September 1, 2021 at 12:17AM Its longtime enemy now a fact of life, Washington must choose when to shun or tolerate the group, with all the wrenching trade-offs each policy choice brings.

Author: BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - Publish Date: August 26, 2021 at 12:53AM Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, lays out his case — by turns funny, sarcastic and ironic — for the inevitability of democracy in his country.

Author: BY ARMANDO CHAGUACEDA AND COCO FUSCO - Publish Date: August 8, 2021 at 02:00AM They should have the right to create a society by and for themselves.

Author: BY RICK GLADSTONE - Publish Date: July 29, 2021 at 01:57AM “Trust in the West does not work,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, signaling further problems with stalled negotiations to salvage the country’s nuclear agreement.

Author: BY FARNAZ FASSIHI - Publish Date: July 22, 2021 at 12:30AM A prolonged drought worsened by climate change and government mismanagement has added a volatile new element to the swirl of challenges in Iran, ranging from the pandemic to U.S. sanctions.

Author: BY MIKE IVES - Publish Date: May 29, 2021 at 02:16PM The move is the latest Western response to the forced landing of a European commercial flight with a Belarusian dissident aboard.

Author: BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Publish Date: April 22, 2021 at 06:54AM Russian troops massed on the border of Ukraine, a dissident gravely ill, new sanctions. What’s it all mean?

Author: BY DAVID E. SANGER AND FARNAZ FASSIHI - Publish Date: February 22, 2021 at 08:10AM The new limits appeared to be lighter than the country had threatened, giving Western nations three months to see if they can revive the 2015 nuclear agreement.

Author: BY ERIC LIPTON - Publish Date: February 22, 2021 at 07:51AM The Treasury Department slapped sanctions on the Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler in 2017 for corruption in Africa. In Donald Trump’s final days in office, they were rolled back with no explanation.

Author: BY FARNAZ FASSIHI AND RICK GLADSTONE - Publish Date: January 28, 2021 at 07:26AM With a combination of threats, provocative acts and public appeals, Iran is jostling for attention from an administration preoccupied with spillover crises from the Trump years.

Author: BY MELISSA EDDY - Publish Date: January 19, 2021 at 08:10AM The sanctions are the first targeting the Nord Stream 2 undersea pipeline, which is to carry natural gas directly from Russia to Germany, whose government backs the project.

Author: BY ED AUGUSTIN AND KIRK SEMPLE - Publish Date: January 13, 2021 at 07:32AM The U.S. decision was made in “the death throes of a failed and corrupt administration,” Cuba’s president said. For Cubans, the change in administrations in Washington can’t come soon enough.

Author: BY MICHAEL CROWLEY, ED AUGUSTIN AND KIRK SEMPLE - Publish Date: January 12, 2021 at 06:46AM In announcing the move, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited Cuba’s hosting of American fugitives and Colombian rebels and its support for Venezuela’s authoritarian leader.

Author: BY CHOE SANG-HUN - Publish Date: January 9, 2021 at 08:35AM But as he pledged to advance the country’s weaponry, the North Korean leader also said he did “not rule out diplomacy.”