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Russia Presses Assault in Eastern Ukraine in a Bid to Encircle Kyiv Forces

Sunday 04-12-2022 05:18 PM

Russia pressed its assault against eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the U.K.’s Defense Ministry said Saturday, while Ukraine’s general staff said it was holding off Russian attacks in the region ...

UK refuses to bring stricken Isis bride home

Sunday 04-12-2022 05:01 PM

A leading neurologist has accused the Foreign Office of “barbaric behaviour” for failing to evacuate a dangerously ill woman from a detention camp in northeast Syria, where he says she will die ...

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 ...

Iran reviewing mandatory headscarf law amid ongoing protests

Sunday 04-12-2022 03:11 PM

Iranian authorities said they would review a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as the country struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code. ...

Israeli aircraft hit Gaza after rocket fire

Sunday 04-12-2022 02:14 PM

Israeli aircraft struck several military sites in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, hours after Palestinian militants fired a missile into southern Israel in a move apparently linked to rising tension in ...

Iran executed 4 people it says spied for Israel

Sunday 04-12-2022 01:56 PM

Iranian authorities executed four people Sunday accused of working for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, the state-run IRNA news agency said. Three others received lengthy prison sentences. IRNA ...

Why a distracted Russia points to an unstable future for Syria

Sunday 04-12-2022 01:27 PM

The Islamic State (IS) group announced this week that its leader had been killed in Syria, while the US-backed group that destroyed its so-called caliphate in the country declared it was halting all ...

We’re ready for Ukraine peace talks, Kremlin claims

Saturday 03-12-2022 07:26 PM

The Kremlin has claimed it is ready for peace talks with the US over the war in Ukraine but rejected western terms for opening the negotiations. It comes a day after President Biden appeared to ...

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 ...

Women in conservative region of Iran join Mahsa Amini protests

Saturday 03-12-2022 07:08 PM

Black-clad women in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province have joined nationwide protests on Friday sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, in what a rights group called a rare move in the staunchly ...

Iranian state media: Construction begins on nuclear plant

Saturday 03-12-2022 06:56 PM

Iran on Saturday began construction on a new nuclear power plant in the country’s southwest, Iranian state TV announced, amid tensions with the U.S. over sweeping sanctions imposed after Washington ...

Joint patrols resume in north Syria amid tension with Turkey

Saturday 03-12-2022 06:36 PM

U.S. troops Saturday resumed joint patrols with Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria days after they were stopped amid Turkish threats of a new ground incursion into the war-torn country. A patrol ...

In Libya, reconciliation outweighs everything else

Saturday 03-12-2022 06:25 PM

Reconciliation has become the basic principle in Libya, driving efforts by the international community to crystallize a political solution. There are expectations that a comprehensive ...

Sudan army chief of staff pays 'unique' visit to Algiers

Saturday 03-12-2022 06:17 PM

Chief of Staff of the Sudanese army, Mohamed Osman al-Hussein, arrived in Algiers on November 22 for an official visit, described by some people as unique. Accompanying the Sudanese ...

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 ...