VATICAN CITY (RNS) — At a gathering in Rome, Pope Leo XIV will place war and peace at the center of his young pontificate, ...

T wo looming elections are shaping the Middle East war/peace agenda. Donald Trump is contemplating a likely congressional ...

Iran pact would end the four-month war that's shaken the Middle East and oil markets, causing gas prices to soar amid economic uncertainty.

The deal was expected to open the Strait of Hormuz and lift the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports. But it would leave the ...

The announcement of a new agreement between the United States and Iran has been greeted with relief across global markets.

The human toll and economic costs mounted rapidly after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.

Worse, it was just the latest of a decade-long decline of peace and upsurge of war. As the author of a book on world peace and how we can achieve it (that’s literally the title), here’s my assessment.

When he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many warned Vladimir Putin that the offensive he claimed was ...

The deal follows weeks of mixed messaging from both Washington and Tehran on the trajectory of the conflict.

President Putin faced two rival outlines of Russia's future on Thursday as he hosted his premier annual investment conference ...

The long peace of the past eight decades has rested on two revolutionary convictions: that wars of aggression are intolerable and that empires must end. The first principle emerged from the carnage of ...

For many, peace is a distant abstraction, defined simply by the absence of gunfire. But for Uruguayan photographer Ximena Borrazás, nearly four years on the frontlines of wars - from Ukraine to ...