Conflict
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 05:52
Moscow has escalated its brinksmanship with the West, reopening a monumental 1990s clash over an oil pipeline that it fought and lost with the United States.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 05:49
Compared with strategic weapons, 1,240 Javelin missiles are small beer. Yet the Obama administration has thus far refused to transfer to Kiev the antitank system—or any other form of lethal aid.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 05:48
Activists gathering in the central square of the Armenian capital, Yerevan, this week pledged to keep up the pressure on authorities to reverse their decision to raise electricity prices next month.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 06:47
The U.S. plans to expand its military footprint in Turkey with more personnel and combat aircraft, part of an emerging deal with the Turkish military to intensify the fight against Islamic State militants in their strongholds across the Turkey-Syria border, a defense official said Monday.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 06:43
The scope of the war against the Islamic State is expanding. As outlined by the Washington Post on Sunday night, Turkey and the United States have reached an agreement that calls for a de facto “safe zone” along the Turkey-Syria border after militants are driven out of 40-mile wide, 68-mile-long area west of the Euphrates River.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 06:39
In recent weeks Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, has experienced one of the more turbulent periods of his administration as a series of protests against him, led by opposition groups, have rocked the Andean nation.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 06:11
Dozens of people protesting against rising electricity tariffs have gathered on a central square of the Armenian capital, Yerevan.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 06:09
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev said on Monday the United States had sought to "create chaos" in his country by granting an award to a jailed dissident.
Monday, July 27, 2015 - 07:08
Colombia’s peace talks are stuck on the subject of justice as both the FARC and the government fear the legal consequences of the tens of thousands of war crimes committed by both parties.
Monday, July 27, 2015 - 07:03
Armenia, a small traditionally pro-Russian former Soviet republic, has just experienced a spectacular eruption of mass protests.