A Russian cargo plane departed from Russia’s air base in the Syrian port city of Latakia for Libya on Saturday, a Syrian security official stationed outside the facility said, following the opposition’s overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad last weekend. The official told Reuters that additional Russian departures from the Hmeimim air base in Syria’s coastal Latakia…
Moscow’s foreign intelligence chief said he has not been in contact with the CIA over Kyiv’s strikes with Western long-range weapons into Russia and Moscow’s use of its new missile in response, Russia’s RIA agency reported on Sunday. “No, I have not been in contact,” Sergei Naryshkin told RIA in an interview when asked if…
Iran confirmed Saturday that it has allowed watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to increase the number of inspections it carries out into Tehran’s nuclear program, state media reported. “We have increased capacity – it is natural that the number of inspections should also increase,” the official IRNA news agency quoted the country’s nuclear chief Mohammad…
South Korea’s acting president, Han Duck-soo, moved on Sunday to reassure the country’s allies and calm financial markets a day after President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and suspended from his duties over a martial law attempt. Han spoke with US President Joe Biden by phone, the White House and Han’s office said. “South Korea…
Top diplomats from eight Arab countries, meeting in Jordan on Saturday, called for a peaceful transition in Syria with UN and Arab League support following Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. In a final statement after the talks in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba, foreign ministers from Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates,…
Ukrainian drones attacked an infrastructure facility storing fuel in central Russia’s Oryol region, sparking a fire and smashing windows in homes, regional governor Andrei Klychkov said early on Saturday. Klychkov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said a “mass attack” on an infrastructure site caused fuel to catch fire. Fragments from downed drones smashed windows…
Few in the Jahan family’s remote Bangladeshi village had ever seen a jackal up close—until one morning when a rabid jackal stalked four-year-old Musqan through the paddy fields, pounced on her, and maimed her for life. Violent, unprovoked attacks by rabid canines are rising across the South Asian nation, driven by rampant deforestation and habitat…
Thousands took to the streets of South Korea’s capital Saturday in rival rallies for and against President Yoon Suk Yeol, hours ahead of an impeachment vote over his failed martial law bid. Protests demanding Yoon step down kicked off around midday outside the National Assembly, which will vote at 4:00 p.m. (0700 GMT) on an impeachment…
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Reuters on Friday that the US is looking at further sanctions on “dark fleet” tankers and will not rule out sanctions on Chinese banks as it seeks to reduce Russia’s oil revenue and access to foreign supplies to fuel its war in Ukraine. Yellen said in an interview that the US and its…
A defiant South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces a second impeachment vote on Saturday over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, a move that shocked the country, split his party and imperilled his presidency half way through his term. His move to impose military rule on Dec. 3 was rescinded barely six hours later after parliament defied troops…
A top US military officer visited Israel from Wednesday to Friday, meeting with Israeli defense officials and discussing the situation in Syria, among other regional topics, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement. Army General Michael Kurilla, CENTCOM’s commander, met Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, along…
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the military to “prepare to remain” throughout the winter in the UN-patrolled buffer zone that is supposed to separate Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Heights. Israel seized the demilitarized zone on the strategic plateau on Sunday, just hours after the Syrian opposition swept president Bashar al-Assad…
Russia hammered Ukrainian energy facilities in a massive aerial attack on Friday that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was one of the largest yet on the ailing grid and evidence of why Kyiv needed more Western support before any peace with Russia. Russia’s 12th major assault on the energy system this year damaged power facilities in…
The Kremlin said Friday that US President-elect Donald Trump’s opposition to Ukraine firing US-supplied weapons deep into Russia “fully aligned” with Moscow’s position. Trump said in an interview published Thursday that he disagreed “very vehemently” with Ukraine’s use of American-supplied missiles to strike Russian territory. The comments were warmly welcomed in the Kremlin, which on Friday said…
Russian forces are just 1.5 kilometers (1 mile) outside the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after Russian units pushed up from the south, and some advance groups of special forces have even entered the road and rail hub, pro-Russian war bloggers said on Friday. Russia controls a large chunk of Ukraine and is advancing at the…
