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Russia Launches New Drone Attacks as Partnership With Iran Deepens

Sunday 11-12-2022 02:54 PM

Russia launched fresh attacks with Iranian-made drones early Saturday over Ukraine, where the country’s southern command said it shot down 10 of the unmanned aerial systems, an indication that ...

Russia and Iran working on building joint drone production lines

Sunday 11-12-2022 02:06 PM

Iran and Russia have deepened their military alliance and are working on building joint drone production lines, British and US intelligence have warned. The Ministry of Defence said that the Kremlin ...

‘God preserve this score!’ Palestinians revel in Morocco’s World Cup backing

Sunday 11-12-2022 01:38 PM

The stands at Al Thumama Stadium in Doha may have been half empty when the World Cup quarter final between Morocco and Portugal began, but the bars, cafes and streets of Ramallah were already ...

Fierce claims to Crimea highlight slim chance of Russia-Ukraine peace deal

Sunday 11-12-2022 12:58 PM

After nine months of death and destruction, the key to Russia’s war against Ukraine lies in the craggy, sea-swept peninsula of Crimea — with its limestone plateaus and rows of poplar trees — which ...

EXPLAINER: What’s at stake in Turkey’s new Syria escalation

Sunday 11-12-2022 12:40 PM

After weeks of deadly Turkish airstrikes in northern Syria, Kurdish forces and international players are trying to gauge whether Ankara’s threats of a ground invasion are serious. Turkish President ...

Man Accused in 2015 Terror Attacks in Mali Is Extradited to the U.S.

Sunday 11-12-2022 12:04 PM

A man accused of taking part in attacks in Mali in 2015 that killed dozens of people, including an American aid worker, was extradited to the United States to face multiple terrorism charges in ...

How the U.S. Can Compromise With Turkey on Syria

Saturday 10-12-2022 06:33 PM

The latest crisis in the Turkey-U.S. relationship—Turkish threats to launch ground operations into Syria against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) Syrian Kurdish offshoot, the People’s Defense ...

Pentagon gives Ukraine green light for drone strikes inside Russia

Saturday 10-12-2022 06:31 PM

The Pentagon has given a tacit endorsement of Ukraine’s long-range attacks on targets inside Russia after President Putin’s multiple missile strikes against Kyiv’s critical infrastructure. Since ...

Emergency food served up with skills for the future

Saturday 10-12-2022 06:08 PM

When Hon Loyik’s family sowed their wheat last year they said a prayer that this time the crop would not fail. High in the mountains, they relied on rain to water their fields. For a second ...

A Chatty Putin’s Underlying Message: I’m Still in Charge

Saturday 10-12-2022 05:57 PM

Friday evening, continuing to take questions in a news conference after his spokesman tried to end it, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia put forward a blunt thesis on the nature of truth. “You ...

Afghan academic rebuilds life in Italy, dreams of returning

Saturday 10-12-2022 02:33 PM

Batool Haidari used to be a prominent professor of sexology at a Kabul university before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. She taught mixed classes of male and female students, and helped ...

UN rights chief: Iran seeks ‘chilling effect’ with execution

Saturday 10-12-2022 02:24 PM

The U.N.’s top human rights official on Friday said Iran’s first execution of a prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country’s ongoing nationwide protests is “very ...

U.S. troops are back in Somalia and scrambling to help its special forces

Saturday 10-12-2022 01:46 PM

The U.S. military is scrambling to make up for lost time in Somalia after President Biden this spring reversed his predecessor’s order to pull American soldiers out of the country and returned ...

Germany Arrests 25 Suspected of Planning to Overthrow Government

Friday 09-12-2022 01:55 PM

The plan was to storm the German Capitol, arrest lawmakers and execute the chancellor. A prince descended from German nobility would take over as the new head of state, and a former far-right member ...

Ayatollah’s sister calls for overthrow of her brother’s ‘tyranny’ in Iran

Friday 09-12-2022 01:50 PM

The sister of Iran’s supreme leader has said that she hopes the ruling “tyranny” of her brother, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will soon be overthrown as she called on the country’s feared revolutionary ...