MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov said Monday that a positive trend in the development of the situation in Syria is encouraging, noting that Conditions have been created for a prompt and final liquidation of a hotbed of terrorism in Syria. Lavrov said at a reception marking the Islamic Hijra New Year that “the […]

Some 43 Taliban militants, including a top commander, have been killed in US air raids in the northern Afghan province of Faryab bordering Uzbekistan, officials said on Sunday. Gen. Janat Gul, a commander of the Afghan National Army, told journalists that a convoy of over 300 security forces made up of members of a special […]

French President Emmanuel Macron’s La Republique en marche (LREM) party suffered a setback in senate elections on Sunday as the conservative Les Republicains strengthened their hold on the upper house of parliament.Initial results from the vote to renew 171 of 348 Senate seats were expected to leave the French president’s LREM party with only 20-30 […]

Turkey, Russia and Iran are working on setting up a new de-escalation zone in Syria’s Afrin, the Anadolu news agency quoted Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim as saying on Monday.“We are now taking joint moves with Iran and Russia to establish a de-escalation zone in the area of the Syrian city of Afrin in the […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Monday he will call a snap election for parliament’s more powerful lower house for next month.Abe said at a news conference that he will dissolve the chamber on Thursday when it convenes after a three-month summer recess. The election is to be held Oct. 22, AP reported.Support ratings for […]

The photographs that the Russian Defense Ministry published on Sunday on its Facebook page provide compelling evidence that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and US troops that support them are present in Syria’s areas held by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, the ministry said Monday.Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said that […]

Weakened by the worst result for her party since 1949 and facing a more fractious political landscape at home, Germany’s Angela Merkel could be forced to rein in plans to re-shape Europe together with France’s Emmanuel Macron.Merkel’s conservatives garnered more support than any other party in the German election on Sunday, projections showed, ensuring that […]

China on Monday called for all sides in the North Korea missile crisis to show restraint and not “add oil to the flames” amid an exchange of increasingly bellicose rhetoric between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told the UN General Assembly on Saturday […]

The Iraqi government will not hold talks with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) about the results of Monday’s ‘unconstitutional’ referendum on independence in northern Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said. “We are not ready to discuss or have a dialogue about the results of the referendum because it is unconstitutional,” Abadi said in a […]

The UN has said that Israel’s settlement activities are continuing at “at a high rate,” despite demands by the Security Council for the Tel Aviv regime to end its expansions. “Israel’s illegal settlement activities have continued at a high rate, a consistent pattern over the course of the year,” said the UN envoy for the […]