Ukraine, heading into crucial talks with Russia, feels abandoned by U.S. amid impeachment drama
Ukraine is at the center of today's East-West geopolitical battle, but it is feeling increasingly alone and abandoned by its U.S. backers amid the impeachment drama unfolding in Washington. The U.S. ambassador — who was pushed out earlier this year and testified Friday in Congress ...
Syrian government forces started deploying Thursday in areas close to the Turkish border in the country's northeast as part of an agreement reached between Russia and Turkey, state media reported. News agency SANA said troops were deploying between the towns of Jawadiyeh and Malkiyeh, also ...
GOP senators confronted Erdogan in Oval Office over video they deemed propaganda
In a contentious Oval Office meeting, a band of GOP senators rebuffed the effort by Turkey's president to depict anti-Islamic State Kurd forces as terrorists, with White House allies taking a harder line against Recep Tayyip Erdogan than did President Donald Trump. Participants said Erdogan ...
Russia sets up chopper base in northern Syria after U.S. exit
Russia has set up a helicopter base at an airport in the north-eastern Syrian city of Qamishli, the Russian Defense Ministry's Zvezda TV channel said on Thursday, a move designed to increase Moscow's control over events on the ground there. Two Mi-35 helicopter gunships were ...
MH17 crash probe into communications reveals close ties between Russia and Ukraine rebels
An international team of investigators piecing together a criminal case in the July 2014 shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine said Thursday that evidence suggests links between Russia and separatists in the region were closer than previously believed. The Joint Investigation ...
U.S. 'gravely disappointed' by South Sudan unity regime delay
The United States said Wednesday it is "gravely disappointed" and will reevaluate its relationship with South Sudan over the failure of its rival leaders to form a coalition government according to the country's fragile peace accord. President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar last ...
Russia says Kyiv should extend east Ukraine special status law to 2020
Borys Gryzlov, Russia's envoy to an international working group on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, said on Tuesday that Kyiv should extend until 2020 a policy granting special status to that region, known as Donbass, Interfax news agency reported. "The law on the special status ...
U.N. mission in Iraq proposes road map for ending deadly social upheaval
The United Nations mission for Iraq on Sunday proposed a road map out of the country's social upheaval, while Amnesty International said Iraq's crackdown on anti-government protests has descended into a "bloodbath." At least 319 protesters have been killed by security forces since the economically ...
Russian airstrikes kill seven civilians in northwestern Syria's Idlib
Airstrikes by Syrian regime ally Russia on Sunday killed seven civilians, including three children, in an anti-government bastion in northwestern Syria, a war monitor reported. Eight others were wounded in the raids and some of them are in a "critical" condition, said Rami Abdel Rahman, ...
Explosion in Iraq wounds five Italian soldiers, leaving three in 'grave condition': Rome
Italy's defense ministry says five Italian soldiers have been wounded by the explosion of a device in Iraq. The ministry said three of the wounded were in "grave condition" in the blast of the improvised explosive device (IED) as they were passing by Sunday morning. ...
Car bomb kills eight in Turkish-controlled area in Syria: Ankara
A car bomb in Syria killed eight people and wounded more than 20 on Sunday in the sector in the north of the country currently under Turkey's control, Ankara said. "Eight civilians lost their lives and more than 20 were wounded in an attack by ...
Taiwan warns of possible attack if China's slowdown 'becomes serious'
Beijing could resort to military conflict with self-ruled Taiwan to divert domestic pressure if a slowdown in the world's second largest economy amid a trade war threatens the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party, the island's foreign minister has said. As Taiwan's presidential elections approach ...
