Ukraine will continue its cooperation with Türkiye, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a visit to the capital, Ankara. “We want concrete steps in defense cooperation,” Zelenskyy told reporters in an interview published early Wednesday. The Ukrainian leader and Erdoğan held discussions on Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on…
Qatar, a key mediator in the Gaza conflict, said on Tuesday that Palestinians — not outsiders — must decide the territory’s future after the Israel-Hamas war. Foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari told a Doha news conference that the issue was “a Palestinian question,” after Israel insisted on removing Hamas and the United States proposed taking…
Washington said Russia and the United States will name teams to negotiate a path to ending the war in Ukraine as soon as possible, as the superpowers met on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia without Kyiv or the EU. However, no specifics on a possible meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin emerged from the gathering in Riyadh,…
Russia said on Tuesday that the United States “better” understood Moscow’s position after high-level talks between the two nuclear powers in Saudi Arabia. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, the first high-level contact between Moscow and Washington since the Ukraine invasion began, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the conversation was “very useful.” “We did…
Lebanon’s civil defense recovered 23 bodies from several border towns on Tuesday after Israeli troops withdrew under a ceasefire deadline, according to a statement carried by official media. “Specialized teams today… managed to remove 14 bodies from Mais al-Jabal, three from Markaba and three from Kfar Kila, in addition to three from Odaisseh,” said the…
The acceleration in Ukraine diplomacy means Europe needs to do more and in a better way, a French presidency official said ahead of informal talks later on Monday among several key European leaders in Paris. US President Donald Trump stunned European allies in NATO and Ukraine last week when he announced he had held a…
India’s capital New Delhi was jolted awake Monday by powerful tremors from a magnitude 4.0 earthquake, with its epicenter on the edge of the sprawling megacity an hour before dawn. There were no immediate reports of major damage, but terrified residents rushed outside as buildings shook. The US Geological Survey said the quake struck at…
Lebanon official media said Israeli aircraft carried out three strikes Sunday in the Bekaa Valley in the country’s east, two days ahead of a deadline in a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. “Enemy warplanes carried out two strikes on the outskirts of the town of Harbata and a third strike on the town of…
The US military said Sunday it killed a member of an al-Qaeda affiliate organization in a precision airstrike in Syria. US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it conducted the strike Saturday “in Northwest Syria targeting and killing a senior finance and logistics official in the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din (HaD), an al-Qaeda affiliate,” according to a…
Russia’s air defense units intercepted and destroyed 90 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian defense ministry said on Monday. Thirty-eight of the drones were downed over the Sea of Azov, 24 over the southern Russia region of Krasnodar, and the rest over several other regions in the south and west of the country, as well as…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was prepared to deploy troops to Ukraine if needed, hours before European leaders meet in Paris on Monday to address Washington’s shock policy shift on the war. US President Donald Trump sidelined Kyiv and its European backers last week by calling his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to talk…
Israel and the United States are determined to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions and its “aggression” in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday after meeting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Speaking after meeting Rubio in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said they had held a “very productive discussion” on a number of issues,…
White House Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff on Sunday said he would travel to Saudi Arabia later in the day with National Security Advisor Mike Waltz for talks on how to end Russia’s war on Ukraine. His remarks to Fox News were the first official confirmation that the talks would take place. “I am going tonight,”…
US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that talks on phase two of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas would continue this week “at a location to be determined” to figure out how to reach a successful conclusion. He told Fox News that he had “very productive and constructive” calls…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes Russia is preparing to “wage war” against a weakened NATO should President Donald Trump dilute US support for the alliance. In an interview with broadcaster NBC on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskyy also said Trump had the leverage to push Vladimir Putin into ceasefire negotiations over Ukraine,…
