The Russian military has announced that armed groups in Syria’s militant-held Eastern Ghouta are preventing civilians from exiting the conflict zone. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Russian military announced that talks aimed at peacefully resolving the situation in Eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus had broken down. “Calls by the Russian ceasefire ...
Read More »US indictment of Russian nationals over US election ‘absurd’: Moscow
Russia has flatly dismissed as “absurd” the indictment of 13 Russian nationals by the US Justice Department for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. “Thirteen people interfered in the US elections? Thirteen people against billions budgets of special agencies? Against intelligence and counter-espionage, against the newest technologies? Absurd? ...
Read More »Qatari emir: Saudi-led blockade ‘futile’, unity needed in Middle East
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says his peninsular Persian Gulf country has “preserved its sovereignty” months after a “futile” diplomatic blockade was imposed against Doha by a Saudi-led group of Arab states. “It has been a futile crisis manufactured by our neighbors, some of whom are major ...
Read More »‘US not pledging funds for Iraq reconstruction’
The United States will be a main absentee from plans to contribute to Iraq’s finances, US officials say as Baghdad seeks to rebuild the country following a devastating battle against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group. US officials at a donors’ conference held for Iraq’s reconstitution in Kuwait said Monday that ...
Read More »Brexit reversal to plunge UK into crisis: Farage
Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage has warned that if UK Prime Minister Theresa May allows Brexit to be halted by supporters of European Union membership, Britain will be thrust into its gravest “constitutional crisis” since World War ll. Farage, 53, who as UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader convinced May’s predecessor, David ...
Read More »One in five experience sexual harassment at UK Parliament: Report
Nearly one in five people working in Britain’s Parliament were sexually harassed or witnessed inappropriate behavior in the past year, said a report commissioned after a series of sex scandals at Westminster. The report, published on Thursday, called for a new complaints procedure along with radical change of a culture ...
Read More »Brexit ‘policy paralysis’ harming UK armed forces: Expert
Britain’s pending divorce from the European Union (EU) Is already taking its toll on the country’s armed forces, warns a leading British military specialist. Professor Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director general of the London-based military think tank the Royal United Services Institute, warned in a report that Brexit had put ...
Read More »Germany grants asylum to four former Turkish military forces amid soured ties
Germany has granted asylum to four former Turkish military forces, including one whom Ankara accuses of assuming a leading role in the country’s 2016 failed coup, amid ongoing tensions between the two countries. Turkey accuses former Turkish colonel and then head of the Ankara military academy Ilham P., whose ...
Read More »Defiant British PM rejects criticism of Brexit plan
UK Prime Minister Theresa May insisted Friday she was “doing what the British people want” and going nowhere despite growing pressure from her party over her leadership and Brexit strategy. In a BBC interview at the end of a three-day trip to China, May declined to detail exactly what she ...
Read More »Russia foils terrorist plot by Daesh
Russia’s main intelligence agency has killed a member of the Daesh terrorist group who plotted a terrorist attack in the country on the presidential election day next month. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement on Thursday that it had “neutralized” the terrorist in the northwestern Russian ...
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