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Red lines. U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff drew a red line on Iran’s nuclear program, saying Washington would not permit ...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced the end of U.S. airstrikes against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement. The decision ...
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), founded in 1978 by Abdullah Ocalan, spent decades waging an insurgency against the ...
New occupants. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have begun moving fighters to bases in the Al-Omar and Conoco oil and ...
In a bit of performance art at Russia’s Victory Day parade on May 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a big show of ...
Preparing for negotiations. U.S. President Donald Trump said at a press conference that he might fly to Istanbul on May 15 ...
China is shifting from an export- and investment-driven economy to one based on domestic consumption. The reason is ...
The World Trade Organization has released a report titled World Trade Outlook and Statistics, highlighting two negative ...
Clashes broke out last week between Pakistan and India after a militant group – purportedly backed by Pakistan – attacked an ...
In the early morning of May 11, when most Russians were fast asleep, President Vladimir Putin issued a long statement on a ...
The US-Ukraine minerals deal is done but a Russia-Ukraine peace deal is seemingly out of reach. Now the US is looking to ...
Tempered expectations. Russia and Ukraine are expected to hold their first direct talks since March 2022 in Istanbul on Thursday. Early Thursday, the ...