Syrian or Russian warplanes bombed aid trucks near Aleppo after a fragile week-long ceasefire ended and it appeared that the bloody five-year war was fully back on late on Monday. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 32 people were killed in dozens of air strikes launched[…]
US-led coalition air raids reportedly killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, endangering a US-Russian brokered ceasefire and prompting an emergency UN Security meeting as tensions between Washington and Moscow escalated. The US military said the coalition stopped its strikes against what it believed to be ISIL positions in the[…]
The Philippines is firmly committed to its alliance with the United States but will not be lectured on human rights and treated like a “little brown brother,” the country’s Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said on Thursday. Speaking in Washington after recent remarks by the Philippines’ outspoken new President Rodrigo Duterte[…]
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Shoura Council have criticized the 9/11 Bill passed by the US Congress as “ill-advised” and a “dangerous precedent.” Iyad Madani, the OIC secretary-general, said: “In passing the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, or JASTA, Congress disrupts international relations, threatens to plunge[…]
The United States and Russia have said that a cessation of hostilities in Syria is largely holding and it should be extended by 48 hours, as the United Nations urged all sides to guarantee the security of an aid convoy, currently held-up along the Turkish border, into Aleppo. “There was[…]
The Philippines president says US troops “have to go” from the south of his country. He blames American soldiers for inflaming tensions with the local Muslim population, saying they would “never have peace” with a US military presence. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte says he is opposed to US soldiers being[…]
Ruinous violence has raged in several parts of Syria, shortly after the US and Russia sealed an ambitious agreement aimed at breathing life back into a stuttering peace process. More than 100 people were reported killed in a series of bombing raids on rebel-held parts of Aleppo province in the[…]
North Korea said it has carried out a successful “nuclear warhead explosion” test to counter what it called US hostility, North Korean state TV reported, angering neighbours and the United States. An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 was detected in the country’s north on Friday morning, South Korea’s meteorological[…]
Washington has criticized Israel’s announced settlement expansion in the occupied territories, once again stressing that increased construction activity jeopardizes the two-state solution between the Palestinians and the Israelis. The Civil Administration’s High Planning Committee on Wednesday went on to approve the development of 234 housing units for the elderly in[…]
Ankara has summoned the US ambassador to Turkey to explain Washington’s “unacceptable” comments about Turkey’s anti-ISIS operation in Syria, rejecting any talk of a ceasefire with the US-backed Kurdish militia and vowing to “eliminate all threats.” Turkish forces crossed into Syria on August 24, targeting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)[…]
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