GENEVA (AA) – A new round of talks involving the Constitutional Committee seeking an end to the war in Syria will resume in Geneva from March 21. The office of the special UN envoy on Syria said on Friday that the seventh round of the Constitutional Committee Small Body will be held behind closed doors […]
NEW YORK (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for a political solution to the civil war in Syria that began 11 years ago. The civil war began when the Bashar al-Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters. Hundreds of thousands of people have since been killed and millions more displaced, according to [...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukraine’s defense minister said Thursday that more than 200,000 Ukrainian citizens have returned from Europe to protect their country. “More than 100,000 Ukrainian citizens joined the army. More than 200,000 of our citizens returned from Europe to protect our country,” said Oleksii Reznikov. “There ...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye has evacuated 13,719 citizens from Ukraine since Russia launched a war on its neighbor, the Turkish foreign minister said Thursday. Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Twitter that 125 citizens had set out from Ukraine today. Cavusoglu said citizens were coming to Turkey from Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, and Kremenchuk. He wished all the [&h...
LONDON – The British government has announced a full asset freeze and travel ban on seven Russian oligarchs, including Roman Abramowich, as Moscow’s war on Ukraine continues. “Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has announced a full asset freeze and travel ban on seven of Russia’s wealthiest and most influential oligarchs, whose business empires...
BUDAPEST – AA: The number of Ukrainian refugees in Hungary exceeded 200,000 on Thursday, taking the total number of those who have fled to 2.3 million. Stating that his country condemns the attack on Ukraine, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Peter Szijjarto said they will continue to support Ukraine’s territoria...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing the “information war” in Ukraine, CIA Director Bill Burns said Thursday. Speaking at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats, Burns warned that Russia could use chemical weapons, saying the allegations raised by Moscow to use as a false flag operation “is somethi...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday that he fears Russian President Vladimir Putin might use chemical weapons in Ukraine. “The stuff that you’re hearing about chemical weapons is straight out of their playbook,” Johnson said in an interview with Sky News. “They start saying that there are ch...
ANKARA – Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Joe Biden held a phone conversation discussing Russia’s war on Ukraine. It is important that Turkiye is in a facilitator position in search for a solution, in case the Russia-Ukraine crisis deepens further, Erdogan told Biden. Even organizing a tripartit...
The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed using thermobaric weapons, also known as aerosol bombs or vacuum explosives. A Vacuum bomb creates a huge fireball which sucks up all surrounding oxygen. The weapon can destroy reinforced buildings, equipment, and kill people. In 2000, Human Rights Watch condemned Russia’s reported use of the weap...
