Politics

The Syrian army’s recapture of the northern city of Aleppo has put an end to hopes that President Bashar Assad’s regime could be ousted, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Friday, while noting that his party does not want to “control Lebanon.” “After Aleppo, one […]

A ministerial committee tasked with drafting the new government’s policy statement finalized the draft on Friday evening after a second meeting at the Grand Serail, Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s office said. “We finalized the draft policy statement in today’s session, and after a phone call […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday Russia, Iran, Turkey and Syria have agreed to hold peace discussions in the Kazakh capital of Astana to resolve the conflict in Syria. Speaking at his annual, end-of-the-year news conference, Putin said the recent evacuation of Aleppo was “the […]

The Russia-Turkey-Iran format of cooperation provides hope for Syria crisis settlement and preserving territorial integrity and sovereignty of the war-torn country, Ozturk Yilmaz, a deputy chair responsible for foreign relations of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), told Sputnik on Wednesday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Tuesday, […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a major end-of-the-year press conference, where he answered a total of 47 questions on Russia’s foreign and domestric policy, including Russia’s relations with the US and the EU, the possibility of a new arms race and the murder of Russian […]

After nearly an hour’s flight north from Baghdad, a cavernous C-130 military cargo plane touches down. Aboard are reporters, Pentagon officials and the man who has occasioned this trip, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. The plane taxis along an airstrip that as recently as July was […]

CAIRO — Egypt says its president received a call from President-elect Donald Trump in which they both agreed to give the incoming U.S. administration a chance to try and resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The call came hours after Egypt indefinitely postponed a U.N. vote on a […]

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Thursday lauded the Christian representation in Saad Hariri’s government, saying it “corrects” the implementation of the National Pact, while noting that the hybrid electoral laws that have been proposed by the rival parties have no chance of being […]

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, is warning against in-kind retaliation by the U.S. government for Russian hacking during the election. In an interview with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly, Brennan said, “They do some things that are beyond the pale,” referencing those […]