In exchange for modest loans and bailouts over the past decade, Russia now owns significant parts of at least five oil fields in Venezuela, which holds the world’s largest reserves, along with ...

When two of Russia’s most modern, nuclear-capable bombers landed in Venezuela earlier this week, American officials quickly took note. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted out a statement ...

Venezuela’s economic crisis is worsening, with inflation expected to reach nearly 200% in 2025. Venezuela is turning to its geopolitical allies, Russia and China, to counter a deepening economic ...

They see Venezuela’s political crisis as part of a global campaign of American subversion against Russia, and believe backing Mr. Maduro is a matter of principle and self-defense.

Iranian state news media reported yesterday that 71 people were killed when Israel attacked Evin Prison in Tehran on June 23.

Russia in Venezuela. There are unmistakable parallels between Syria and Venezuela. In both cases, a long-standing Russian client was on the ropes, facing a rising tide of popular opposition, ...

Russia acknowledged Thursday that it has military personnel in Venezuela, which is facing political turmoil and a humanitarian crisis, saying the deployment is legal and does not alter the ...

Russia said "it would be nice to know" what U.S. military advisers were doing in Colombia and why President Donald Trump wants Venezuela's other neighbor, Brazil, to join NATO.

Exclusive: Russia Secretly Helped Venezuela Launch a Cryptocurrency to Evade U.S. Sanctions. 13 minute read. By Simon Shuster. March 20, 2018 12:35 PM EDT.

One indicator that Russia will not give up on Venezuela is that Rosneft has sent shipments of heavy naphtha to Venezuela despite the U.S. embargo. This naphtha is necessary to extract heavy crude oil.

DUELLING PARTNERS: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, holds a replica of the sword of Simon Bolivar, a national hero, as Igor Sechin, CEO of Russian oil firm Rosneft, looks on from the left in ...

CARACAS, VENEZUELA — The Russians are coming, including Peter the Great. For the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian warships are sailing toward the Caribbean Sea to ...