WASHINGTON (AA) – Leaked apparent US intelligence documents suggest that the Biden administration is far from confident that Ukraine can quickly mount a counteroffensive that will oust Russian troops from the country. The trove of documents, whose authenticity Washington has repeatedly declined to confirm or deny, has already thrown a wr...
MOSCOW (AA) – The foreign ministers of Russia, China, Iran, and Pakistan on Thursday held the US and its allies, who hastily withdrew from Afghanistan in 2020, responsible for the country’s “disastrous situation.” The four officials held an informal meeting on the sidelines of a conference of the foreign ministers of Af...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Tuesday there is no evidence to suggest that Egypt is supplying Russia with lethal weapons after a leaked American document claimed Cairo secretly planned to supply rockets to Moscow. Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi planned to manufacture 40,000 rockets for Russia, according to the Washington Post, wh...
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP): Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday criticised Russia’s treatment of the Muslim-minority Tatar community in Kremlin-controlled Crimea and vowed to recapture the peninsula from Russia during a first official state iftar. Russia wrested control of the Black Sea territory from Ukraine in 2014 and pushed throu...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Segey Lavrov has said that the West “is not hiding” that China is the “next target” after Russia, as well as any country that “dares to act independently.” “They do not hide that when Russia, as they put it, is ‘defeated,’ China will be the next ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that NATO is building up its forces and means along the member countries’ borders with Moscow and Minsk. “NATO forces and assets are being built up near the borders of Belarus and the Russian Federation, they are especially concerned about the Kaliningrad region,” L...
Beijing, China (AFP): French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he was counting on his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to “bring Russia to its senses” over its war in Ukraine. The French president, who arrived on Wednesday for a three-day state visit, has made clear he is seeking to dissuade China from supporting Russia̵...
The Hague, Netherlands (AFP): Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci was accused of leading a violent campaign against opponents during the 1998-1999 independence war with Serbia as his war crimes trial began on Monday. Thaci and three other leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) rebel group all pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukraine’s foreign minister has said Russia’s upcoming one-month presidency of the UN Security Council is a “bad joke.” “Russian UN Security Council presidency on April 1 is a bad joke. Russia has usurped its seat; it’s waging a colonial war; its leader is a war criminal wanted by the ICC for kidnapping […]...
Goma, DR Congo (AFP): A brilliant setting sun illuminates the sky above the mosque of Munigi, a small clapboard building in troubled eastern DR Congo serving Muslims displaced by the M23 conflict. Worshippers are preparing to break their Ramadan fast in the camp, on a lava-strewn field just 10 kilometres from the front lines. Their circumstanc...
