BRUSSELS (AA) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned on Thursday that if Russia wins in Ukraine, it could continue the war in neighboring countries. It is a “moral responsibility” to support Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion and also serves “our own interest that President (Vladimir) Putin does not succeed in his ambitions [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – The Kremlin has said it is concerned about the situation in the Karabakh region and called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to exercise restraint and implement the tripartite agreements. Speaking to reporters in Moscow, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan may exchang...
BRUSSELS (AA) – NATO has urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to end hostilities as fighting flared up in the region of Karabakh. “NATO calls for an immediate end of hostilities between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces,” Javier Colomina, the NATO secretary-general’s special representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia wrote on Twitter. He add...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada has said that it will send up to 225 military personnel to the UK to join in training as many as 10,000 new Ukrainian troops. The Ukrainians will undergo about five weeks of military instruction from Canadian and UK personnel designed to hone them into battle-ready troops, Canadian Defense Minister […...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Pakistan government has announced that it is moving the country’s top court to seek the disqualification of former Prime Minister Imran Khan for receiving prohibited funds through foreign sources. Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said at a news conference in capital Islamabad that the Law Ministr...
ATHENS (AA) – The office of elected Muslim mufti in a region of Greece with a large minority Muslim Turkish population has cried foul at a move said to violate the minority’s rights guaranteed by treaty. “According to the Treaty of Lausanne, while the Turkish minority in Western Thrace has the right to elect their […]
BRUSSELS (AA) – The NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) stands ready to intervene if needed, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told Serbian President Alexandar Vucic on Wednesday. The two had a phone call in which they discussed “tensions in northern Kosovo,” Stoltenberg said on Twitter. He called on all sides to “engage cons...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan said it launched a retaliatory operation on Wednesday against Armenian forces in Nagorno Karabakh after Armenia opened fire and killed an Azerbaijani soldier, according to its defense ministry. “On the morning of August 3, members of illegal Armenian armed detachments in the territory of Azerbaija...
BEIJING (AA) – The People’s Liberation Army of China (PLA) reportedly sent in 27 fighter jets on Wednesday to the region that Taiwan has designated as an Air Defense Identification Area (ADIZ). The Taiwan Defense Ministry said on Twitter that the “27 PLA aircraft (J-11*6, J-16*5 and SU-30*16) entered the surrounding area of R...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN has accused Israel of causing the displacement of Palestinians living in a Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank. In a report, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said around 100 Palestinians were forced to leave the Ras At-Teen Bedouin community near Ramallah city last month. […]...
