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Before Libya, Turkey's main military operations abroad
Jan 02, 2020 (AFP)
The deployment to Libya is aimed at shoring up the UN-backed government in Tripoli, which has been under sustained attack since April by military strongman Gene...
US places ban on Cuban defense chief
Jan 02, 2020 (AFP)
The department said General Leopoldo Cintra Frias, Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba (MINFAR), "bears responsibility for Cuba's actions to prop...
Pompeo postpones Ukraine trip after attack on US embassy in Iraq
Jan 01, 2020 (AFP)
Pompeo had been due to travel at week's end to Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Cyprus. But on Tuesday, a mob of pro-Iran demonstrators stormed the ...
Japan prepares to build landing strip for carrier-based U.S. planes in East China Sea
Dec 30, 2019 (UPI)
The island is central to the planned relocation of a "field carrier landing practice" site needed by aircraft aboard U.S. aircraft carriers. A three-year constr...
Poland to lead NATO's high readiness task force
Dec 30, 2019 (UPI)
The task force, created in 2004 in response to Russian annexation of Crimea and also known as the Spearhead Force, has thousands of troops on constant standby a...
Ukraine rivals to exchange prisoners in controversial swap
Dec 29, 2019 (AFP)
As part of the swap, Kiev is expected to hand over to separatists several riot policemen suspected of killing protesters during a pro-Western uprising in 2014, ...
Ukraine rivals exchange prisoners in controversial swap
Dec 29, 2019 (AFP)
Kiev was expected to hand over to separatists several riot policemen suspected of killing protesters during a pro-Western uprising in 2014 as part of the swap, ...
Anti-Putin activist 'forcibly drafted' and sent to Arctic base
Dec 25, 2019 (AFP)
Ruslan Shaveddinov, a project manager at Navalny's anti-corruption foundation, went missing Monday after police broke into his Moscow flat and his phone's SIM c...
China slams Pompeo criticism of Syria aid veto
Dec 23, 2019 (AFP)
On Saturday US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described as "shameful" Russia and China blocking the UN resolution, which would have extended for a year cross-bo...
Trudeau to US: don't sign China trade deal unless Canadians freed
Dec 20, 2019 (AFP)
Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor have been held in China's opaque legal system since they were apprehended on December 10, 2018, ac...
Putin drops cryptic hint on 2024 exit in press marathon
Dec 19, 2019 (AFP)
Clocking in at four hours and twenty-five minutes, the question-and-answer session was one of the longest ever held by Putin in a format that has become an annu...
Turkey warns of 'escalation' if US ends Cyprus arms embargo
Dec 18, 2019 (AFP)
The US Congress voted Tuesday to end the embargo on the island, which was imposed in 1987 to avoid an arms race and encourage the conflict's resolution. Cyprus ...
US wants explanation for Turkey threat to close two bases
Dec 17, 2019 (AFP)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday threatened to close the Incirlik and Kurecik bases while speaking to a pro-government television channel. The ...
EU to crash headlong into China dilemmas during 2020 summits
Dec 17, 2019 (AFP)
With new leadership in place in Brussels, the EU hopes to revitalise ties with Beijing -- a vital trade partner but not one that shares Europe's views on freedo...
France, UK say they look beyond Brexit in Mali cooperation
Dec 16, 2019 (AFP)
"We've got a long, fabulous history of working alongside each other, and I don't expect anything to change anytime soon," Royal Air Force (RAF) Chief of Air Sta...
NATO faces most 'complex security' environment in its history: chief
Dec 16, 2019 (AFP)
His words come after a NATO summit earlier this month in Britain exposed sharp divisions between leaders. "What we saw in London, at the leaders' meeting, was t...
Turkey's Erdogan threatens to close 2 US military bases
Dec 15, 2019 (AFP)
"If necessary, we can close Incirlik and we can close Kurecik," Erdogan on the pro-government A Haber television channel. The two bases sit on Turkey's southwes...
China accuses US of 'seriously' damaging bilateral trust
Dec 13, 2019 (AFP)
The two countries have been locked in a trade dispute for almost two years, while rights issues in China's northwest region of Xinjiang and Hong Kong have furth...
Ukraine leader ridicules Russian TV for scrapping his comedy show
Dec 13, 2019 (AFP)
Zelensky's "Servant of the People" premiered in Russia on Wednesday evening after a high-profile summit with Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. But ...
Senate committee passes bill prohibiting president from leaving NATO
Dec 12, 2019 (UPI)
The bill, passed by the committee on Wednesday afternoon, awaits referral to the Senate for a full vote and is intended to close a loophole in the constitution ...
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