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Ukraine Targets Bases Deep in Russia, Showing Expanded Reach

Tuesday 06-12-2022 04:23 PM

Ukraine executed its most brazen attack into Russian territory in the nine-month-old war on Monday, targeting two military bases hundreds of miles inside the country using drones, according to the ...

Skyrocketing Prices in Turkey Hurt Families and Tarnish Erdogan

Tuesday 06-12-2022 02:49 PM

As Turkey’s annual inflation rate has soared above 80 percent, families are being forced to stick with worn-out clothes and shoes and to cut meat from their diets while some struggle to afford ...

Russia bombards Ukraine as Putin visits Crimea bridge

Tuesday 06-12-2022 02:26 PM

Ukrainian cities faced a new barrage of missile attacks yesterday as Moscow accused Nato of being involved in a direct military confrontation with Russia that could spark a nuclear war. Air raid ...

He Returned a Dazed Soldier to the Russians. Ukraine Calls It Treason.

Sunday 04-12-2022 03:46 PM

On the night of March 15, Illia Karamalikov received an unexpected phone call. As a nightclub owner and member of Kherson’s city council, he had been running a volunteer neighborhood watch in this ...

Joy as Afghan lives are rebuilt from the rubble

Saturday 03-12-2022 07:17 PM

The night the Taliban attacked Lokah Mazar, Ghulam Sarwat was at home in his mud-built house below a distinctive rocky crag jutting up from the centre of the village. The Taliban’s target was a ...

How U.S. Support for Syrian Kurds Actually Benefits Erdogan

Thursday 01-12-2022 02:30 PM

Of the many issues that divide the United States and Turkey, Washington’s support for the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) in Syria is the thorniest. The YPG makes up the bulk of the Syrian ...

Ukraine’s Power Shortages Force Millions of Refugees Into Lengthier Exile

Thursday 01-12-2022 01:59 PM

Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure are forcing millions of Ukrainian refugees who intended to return home to stay put, prolonging their ordeal and straining Europe’s ability to ...

Turkey Is NATO’s Pivot Point Over Ukraine

Wednesday 30-11-2022 04:01 PM

When Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated his 70th birthday in October, he didn’t get any well-wishes from leaders in the West, with one notable exception: Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

Don’t Release Foreign Reserves to the Taliban

Wednesday 30-11-2022 03:44 PM

Last week, the board of a Swiss-based trust fund, known as the Afghan Fund, met for the first time in Geneva to discuss the future of the $3.5 billion—part of Afghanistan’s $7.1 billion stockpile of ...

Afghans can fight famine — with our help

Wednesday 30-11-2022 02:22 PM

As dawn breaks over Kabul, thin spirals of smoke lift into the thin air as the city’s bakeries fire up. Yet even in this busy capital, there are many who can only dream of tasting fresh bread today. ...

Ukraine Warns of More Strikes on Power Plants, as Russians Dig In

Tuesday 29-11-2022 03:45 PM

Amid Ukrainian warnings that Moscow is preparing a new wave of strikes on energy plants, Russian forces are fortifying their defensive lines in southern Ukraine after retreating from the city of ...

The week that could unravel the global oil market

Monday 28-11-2022 04:16 PM

As an epic oil crash threatened more havoc on a pandemic-stricken global economy in April 2020, the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and other G20 countries met to thrash out a solution. The co-operation ...

Decreased operations, increased casualties: Terrorism index in Africa during October 2022

Monday 28-11-2022 03:18 PM

Africa was subjected to many terrorist attacks during the month of October 2022, the number of which reached 51, killing 351 people, executing six, wounding 556, and kidnapping 27 others, with a ...

Christmas appeal: The past year in Afghanistan has felt like the slow death of a nation

Sunday 27-11-2022 03:50 PM

First they sold their belongings. Kettles, blankets and mattresses, spread out on cloths along the roadside. Then they sold their kidneys, leaving vivid scars across their bellies. Others sold their ...

Defiance in the dark: Ukrainians improvise to thwart Putin’s power cuts

Sunday 27-11-2022 02:31 PM

Winter power cuts have become the Kremlin’s devastating new weapon against Ukraine, but the owner of Brooks, a large, fashionable restaurant in the central city of Dnipro, is stubbornly defiant. So ...