February 1, 2017 0 Afghan Government Control Shrank, Troop Deaths Soared Last Year: Report Afghan forces have continued to lose ground to insurgents throughout the country since taking over security responsibilities from ...
February 1, 2017 0 Hundreds Of U.S. Diplomats Protest Trump Curbs On Muslim Visitors The U.S. State Department has confirmed that around 900 American diplomats from around the world are protesting a temporary ban ...
February 1, 2017 0 U.S. Warns Iranian Ballistic Missile Tests ‘Absolutely Unacceptable’ The United States has warned Iran that its testing two days ago of a long-range ballistic missile was “absolutely ...
February 1, 2017 0 UN Security Council Calls For Halt To Renewed Violence In Eastern Ukraine The United Nations Security Council has expressed “grave concern” over the “dangerous deterioration” in ...
January 31, 2017 0 UN Postpones Next Round Of Geneva Syria Talks The United Nations envoy on the conflict in Syria has postponed the next round of Geneva conflict-regulation talks by nearly two ...
January 31, 2017 0 Russian Prosecutor Seeks Three-Year Sentence For Activist Who Praised Orlando Massacre A Russian prosecutor called for a three-year prison sentence for a youth activist from the Tatarstan region who is on trial over ...
January 31, 2017 0 Eight EU Members Urge Closer Cooperation With U.S. On Ukraine Reforms Eight EU member states are calling for more cooperation between the United States and the European Union in pushing for reforms ...
January 31, 2017 0 Uzbekistan To Spend Billions In Troubled Aral Sea Region Uzbekistan plans to spend $2.6 billion over five years to develop the area around the shrunken Aral Sea, which is stricken by ...
January 31, 2017 0 Kremlin Foe Navalny Under Orders To Attend Trial Russian bailiffs are seeking to enforce an order requiring Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny to attend a hearing in his trial in the ...
January 30, 2017 0 Explainer: Who Is Affected By Trump’s Entry Ban To U.S., And How? U.S. President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order temporarily banning refugees from all foreign countries and ...
January 30, 2017 0 Russia Charges Crimean Tatar Official With Undermining Territorial Integrity Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has filed extremism charges against a leading Crimean Tatar official in the annexed ...
January 30, 2017 0 Uzbek President Says Chickens Are The Answer Uzbekistan’s new president, Shavkat Mirziyaev, has ordered every rural household to keep chickens as a source of food and ...
January 30, 2017 0 Anxious Ukraine Risks Escalation In ‘Creeping Offensive’ Ukrainian forces, anxious to show their newfound strength, have launched what many are calling a “creeping offensive” ...
January 30, 2017 0 Bosnia Indicts Bosnian-Serb Woman On War-Crimes Charges A Sarajevo court has indicted a Bosnian-Serb woman on charges of participating in the killings of 37 Bosniak prisoners of war in ...
January 30, 2017 0 White House Says Saudis Agree On Need For Syria, Yemen Safe Zones The White House says President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman agreed to support safe zones in Syria and Yemen ...
January 29, 2017 0 Reports: Renowned Iranian Filmmaker To Skip Oscar Awards After U.S. Immigration Order A renowned Iran filmmaker whose latest movie is up for an Academy Award announced he would boycott next month’s Hollywood ...
January 29, 2017 0 Four Ukrainian Soldiers Killed In Clashes With Separatist Fighters Ukrainian authorities said four soldiers had been killed in fighting Russia-backed separatists, some of the worst violence in ...
January 29, 2017 0 Reading The Readouts: A Closer Look At The Trump-Putin Phone Call For Americans and Russians looking for clues about how relations will shape up under U.S. President Donald Trump, the Kremlin and ...
January 29, 2017 0 The Reasons Behind The Turkmen-Tajik Tiff A recent spat between Turkmenistan and Tajikistan is probably the lamest dispute between two Central Asian countries I can ...
January 29, 2017 0 St. Petersburg Residents Protest Transfer Of St. Isaac’s To Church More than 2,000 people rallied in St. Petersburg to protest a decision by the city administration to turn the landmark St. ...
January 29, 2017 0 U.K.’s May Signs Fighter Jet Deal During Ankara Visit U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May signed a $125 million fighter jet deal with Turkey during a visit to Ankara as she looked to ...
January 29, 2017 0 Syrian Fans Cheer The Return Of Football To Aleppo Syrians in Aleppo cheered as they watched their first live football match in years, bringing a semblance of normality to the city ...
January 29, 2017 0 Russian Doping Whistle-Blower Says Doubts Country’s Attitude Has Changed Russian whistle-blower Yulia Stepanova says she doubts her country’s attitude toward sports doping has changed ...