February 23, 2017 0 Deadly Blast Reported At Chemical Plant In Uzbekistan A blast at a chemical plant in the city of Ferghana in Uzbekistan has killed an undisclosed number of people, the Central Asian ...
February 23, 2017 0 Dutch Lawmakers Vote In Favor Of EU-Ukraine Deal The Netherlands’ lower house of parliament has voted for the ratification of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, leaving ...
February 23, 2017 0 Everyone Seems To Have A Peace Plan For Ukraine Amid a recent surge in violence in eastern Ukraine and yet another failed cease-fire in the nearly 3-year-old conflict are a wave ...
February 23, 2017 0 Thousands Protest In Kabul Against Pakistan’s Cross-Border Shelling Thousands of activists rallied in downtown Kabul on February 23, protesting Pakistan’s cross-border rocket shelling last ...
February 23, 2017 0 Montenegrin Foreign Minister Sees NATO Membership By Late May Montenegrin Foreign Minister Srdjan Darmanovic has said he expects his country to become a full member of NATO at a summit in ...
February 23, 2017 0 Poroshenko Says Satisfied Has ‘Built Bridges’ With Trump Administration Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he was satisfied he has established a dialogue with the Trump administration despite ...
February 23, 2017 0 Russia Open To U.S. Plan To Create Safe Zones, If Syria Is Involved Russia is open to dialogue with the United States on creating safe zones in Syria, but believes that any such plan needs to be ...
February 23, 2017 0 Key U.S. Senator Open To Subpoena Of Trump Records In Russia Probe A Republican member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said she’s open to using a subpoena to investigate President ...
February 23, 2017 0 Germany Deports Third Planeload Of Rejected Afghan Asylum-Seekers A plane carrying a third group of at least 18 Afghan asylum-seekers rejected by Germany left for Kabul late on February 22. ...
February 23, 2017 0 Upsurge In Violence Prompts Pakistan To Broaden Antiterror Campaign Pakistan’s military launched a nationwide antiterrorist operation on February 22 after a series of extremist attacks killed ...
February 22, 2017 0 Questions Abound Over Salafism In Kyrgyzstan Religious scholars say the fundamentalist Salafi movement of Islam, widely practiced in Saudi Arabia, is gaining ground in ...
February 22, 2017 0 The Daily Vertical: The Human Cost Of Putin’s War The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. (The views expressed in this ...
February 22, 2017 0 ‘Be Strict’: Tajik President Lectures Son On Leadership The new 29-year-old mayor of Tajikistan’s capital got some advice from his father about running the city. Rustam Emomali ...
February 22, 2017 0 Son Of Top Iranian Dissident Cleric Taken Into Custody The son of one of the founding fathers of Iran’s Islamic republic has been arrested to serve a six-year prison sentence for ...
February 21, 2017 0 Washington Committed To Europe Alliances, Says U.S. Envoy To UN NATO is the “strongest alliance in history” and the United States is committed to its alliances in Europe, U.S. ...
February 21, 2017 0 Georgian Patriarch Returns Home, Says Church Will Look Into Cyanide Arrest The leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church has returned to Georgia as controversy swirls over the arrest of an archpreist who ...
February 21, 2017 0 Decades-Old Quest For Justice Rankles Bosnia To sue, or not to sue. That was the question facing Bakir Izetbegovic, the Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, in ...
February 21, 2017 0 Ukraine, Russia Spar Over UN Security Council Reaction To Churkin Death Moscow and Kyiv are at odds over a statement issued by the UN Security Council mourning the February 20 death of Russia’s ...
February 21, 2017 0 ‘The Switzerland Of Pakistan’ Makes A Post-Taliban Comeback A Pakistani ski resort destroyed by the Taliban 10 years ago is coming back to life amid improved security and new investment. ...
February 20, 2017 0 Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s Combative ‘Diplomatic Maestro’ At UN, Dead At 64 Vitaly Churkin, a veteran Soviet and Russian diplomat who served as Moscow’s envoy to the United Nations as its ties with the ...
February 20, 2017 0 Obscure Ukraine Lawmaker Behind ‘Peace Plan’ Delivered To Trump’s White House A little-known Ukrainian lawmaker is in the spotlight after a report said a peace-for-sanctions-relief proposal that he says he ...
February 20, 2017 0 Afghanistan Demands Pakistan Hand Over Militants, Close Training Camps Afghanistan’s government has demanded that Pakistan hand over terrorists operating on its soil and close tens of training ...
February 20, 2017 0 U.S. Defense Secretary Confident On Mosul Liberation Battle U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops have launched an operation to liberate the western part of the city of Mosul from Islamic ...
February 20, 2017 0 Ukrainians Honor Those Killed In Euromaidan Protests Hundreds of people gathered in central Kyiv on February 20 to commemorate the third anniversary of the bloodiest day of protests ...