Overall, the front lines of Syria’s civil war have been stagnant since 2020, although there have been fierce episodic clashes. For the past four years, Assad has controlled much of the country and its largest cities; a Turkey-tolerated, HTS-led alliance of mostly Islamist rebels have remained squeezed in an enclave in Idlib and parts of…
And unlike others in Trump’s MAGA circle, Kellogg welcomed President Joe Biden’s decision to approve Ukraine’s use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia, saying it has given Trump “more leverage” and adding that “it gives President Trump more ability to pivot from that.” Contrast that with the howls of protest over the…
It was correct to place the recent article about the latest missile attack on Ukraine on the front page (“Russia’s use of new missile prompts emergency NATO Ukraine talks,” Nov. 23). Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bellicose foreign policy has caused much consternation and his threats to use nuclear weapons cause even more concern. Since 2014,…
China has renewed its warnings over the potential use of nuclear weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war, in response to recent speculation about the possibility of the U.S. stationing them in the embattled country to deter future Russian aggression. “China is paying close attention to the nuclear risks triggered by the Ukraine crisis and has reiterated…
Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, photos on Sunday show the wreckage of Moscow’s new experimental missile which was test launched on Thursday and struck a factory in Ukraine. The war has raged on for more than two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the “special military operation” in Ukraine in February 2022. Although Moscow…
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on Sunday fired around 160 projectiles into Israel, targeting the capital, Tel Aviv, and a naval base in the southern part of the country, news agency AFP quoted. An Israeli bomb squad policeman carries the remains of a rocket that was fired from Lebanon in Kibbutz Kfar Blum, northern Israel Sunday…
President Joe Biden‘s decision to green-light the use of long-range missiles by Ukraine to target positions inside Russia may benefit President-elect Donald Trump, a retired U.S. general has suggested. Biden announced the decision to allow Ukraine to use ATACMS missiles over the weekend, signaling a marked shift in policy toward the conflict in Eastern Europe….
Political strategist Steve Bannon has suggested that President Joe Biden’s decision to permit Ukraine to use American-made missiles for strikes inside Russia was made to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from pursuing a peaceful resolution to the conflict. On Sunday, the administration overturned prior constraints on Kyiv’s use of Western weaponry, allowing Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied…
The attack on the Russian Bryansk region from Ukraine, using U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles is a signal that the West wants to escalate the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday. The minister, who was speaking in Rio de Janeiro at the G20 Summit, told reporters: “The fact that ATACMS were used repeatedly in…
The Kremlin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov had earlier said the use of American weapons to attack targets in Russia constituted “a qualitatively new situation in terms of the involvement of the United States in this conflict.” The Russian military has long been using foreign-made weapons, such as Iranian Shahed drones, to attack Ukraine. Earlier this year, Macron…