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Gorbachev warns of 'dangerous point' as US-Russia ties sour
Moscow (AFP) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned on Monday that the world has reached a "dangerous point" as tensions between Russia and the United States spike over the Syria conflict....
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'He is a liar': Anti-ISIS group in Syria calls out Trump for saying Assad is...
An activist organization opposed to ISIS called out US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday for saying during the previous night's presidential debate that Syrian President Bashar...
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A British lawmaker has likened Russia's behavior in Syria to that of Nazis
LONDON (Reuters) - A senior British lawmaker has accused Russia of targeting civilians in Syria in the same way the Nazis behaved at Guernica during the Spanish civil war of the 1930s.Andrew Mitchell,...
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Putin has cancelled his visit to Paris because France only wants to talk...
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not come to Paris next week after declining to meet President Francois Hollande only for talks on Syria, a source in Hollande's office said, the latest...
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Russia's brutality in Syria is morally abhorrent, but it may be tactically...
Russia’s heavy-handed conduct in the escalating conflict in Syria is a humanitarian disaster; maybe even a war crime. But it also sheds light on Moscow’s perspective on warfighting, its military...
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East Aleppo is 'being devastated, flattened, in front of our eyes’
On Tuesday morning, Russian jets resumed their air strikes on the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo after a few days of relative calm.A large-scale humanitarian crisis has been unfolding for months in...
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The US and Russia have quietly reached their biggest chill in relations since...
Relations between the US and Russia took a nosedive last Monday when Washington announced it would be suspending its negotiations with Moscow over its refusal to halt airstrikes on Syria's largest...
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STRATFOR has released its disconcerting predictions for the fourth-quarter of...
If the study of geopolitics focuses on the structural forces shaping the international system, then domestic elections only rarely matter. Leaders tend to bend to their environment, not the other way...
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Russia to the US: If you want a confrontation, 'you'll get one everywhere'
A full year after Russia stepped into the Syrian quagmire on behalf of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Moscow has come to rival and challenge the US and NATO in virtually every arena possible.Here's a...
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At least 8 killed after Aleppo is hit with 'heaviest Russian bombardment' in...
Beirut (AFP) - At least eight civilians were killed on Tuesday in the heaviest Russian bombardment in days of rebel-held areas of Syria's second city Aleppo, a monitoring group said. The Syrian...
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Turkey's military says ISIS is putting up 'stiff resistance' in Syria
Islamic State militants in northern Syria are putting up "stiff resistance" to attacks by Turkish-backed rebel fighters, Turkey's military said on Wednesday, almost two months after it launched an...
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UN human rights commissioner: UN should override Russia's veto in light of...
GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official repeated his call on Wednesday for a dilution of big powers' United Nations veto in cases of serious war crimes, but he gave little support to...
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Here’s what would happen if US tried to strike Russian-backed targets in Syria
In a bold faced power move, Russia just moved additional missile defense batteries to Syria and issued a thinly veiled threat that it would shoot down any US or coalition aircraft that tried to bomb...
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Putin: Russian war crimes accusations are 'political rhetoric that doesn't...
French accusations that the bombing of Aleppo amounts to war crimes are rhetoric, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with French television TF1 aired on Wednesday."It's political...
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Russia and Egypt will hold joint military exercises for the first time in...
Egypt's armed forces will hold joint military exercises with their Russian counterparts on Egyptian soil for the first time from Oct. 15-26, Cairo's military spokesman said on Wednesday.Days ago Egypt...
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Syrian refugee accused of plotting bomb attack on Berlin airport has...
A 22-year-old Syrian refugee arrested last weekend in Germany over suspicions that he was plotting to bomb Berlin airport has reportedly committed suicide, according to German newspaper Der Spiegel.Der...
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Turkey is using Russia 'as a trump card' against the US — and Putin is...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, met on Monday for the second time since August to finalize a deal for an undersea gas pipeline and demonstrate...
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Foreign minister: Britain looking at its military options in Syria
Britain is looking at its military involvement in Syria but any action would need to be part of a coalition involving the United States and is not likely to happen soon, foreign minister Boris Johnson...
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EU foreign ministers expected to accuse Russia and Syria of war crimes
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - EU foreign ministers will accuse the Syrian government and its allies of using disproportionate violence in its assault on rebel-held eastern Aleppo that "may amount to war...
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Report: Obama is weighing military action in Syria to counter Russia and Assad
U.S. President Barack Obama and his top foreign policy advisers are expected to meet on Friday to consider their military and other options in Syria as Syrian and Russian aircraft continue to pummel...
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