Review the day’s key developments in defense and global affairs with SOFREP’s Evening Brief – Friday, May 23, 2025.

The burgeoning relationship between Qatar and Russia signals that the Kremlin is not as globally isolated as the West desires ...

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated that developing a unified peace and ceasefire memorandum between Moscow and Kyiv ...

MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Friday that a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump ...

Russia and Ukraine are set to hold their first direct peace talks in three years, but hopes for a breakthrough are still dim ...

The delegation also includes Nooruddin Azizi, Minister of Commerce and Industry, and Hibatullah Akhundzada, the aviation and transport minister ...

The Afghan interim government''s high-ranking delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, the Deputy Prime Minister ...

According to Xi Jinping, the China wants to import even more high-quality products from the region’s countries ...

Moscow presses on with peace talks offer. Turkey says it’s ready to host Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in comments aired by Russian state TV on Sunday, called Putin’s proposal “very ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in comments aired by Russian state TV on Sunday, called Putin’s proposal “very serious,” aimed at eliminating “the root causes of the conflict,” and said ...

Zelenskyy said on X on Sunday morning that it was a “positive sign that the Russians have finally begun to consider ending the war” and said that “the entire world has been waiting for this ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in comments aired by Russian state ... to consider ending the war” and said that “the entire world has been waiting for this for a very long time." ...