Politics

Russian President Vladimir Putin has canceled a planned visit to France after French President Francois Hollande insisted their meeting focus solely on Syria. Putin was due to travel to Paris October 19 for a visit that would include inaugurating a new Orthodox church. Kremlin spokesman […]

The recent release of a 2005 audio tape, featuring Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump making crass and sexist remarks, has sparked an implosion of the Republican Party, and overshadowed the latest WikiLeaks offering revealing Hillary Clinton’s connections to moneyed interests. Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear […]

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Several women levied allegations of sexual assault against Donald Trump on Wednesday in a series of interviews, adding to the already damaging revelations about the Republican presidential nominee’s aggressive sexual comments about women. Trump’s campaign dismissed the allegations as having no […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given an interview to French TV-channel TF1. During that interview, President Putin talked about such issues as the situation in Syria, canceling his visit to Paris, and other topics. MOSCOW, October 12 (Sputnik) – The United States and its allies […]

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and other key partners in Switzerland Saturday in yet another effort to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Syria. The State Department says the talks in Lausanne are part […]

NNA – MP Ibrahim Kanaan rallied for October 13 commemoration that would fall this Sunday, saying that the event “will be witness to a national cause and we will tell all that this state is established on rights and principles.” Kanaan’s words came Tuesday in […]

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at the party’s top elected official and other Republicans for abandoning his campaign, while acknowledging that it is “hard to do well” when they are giving him “zero support.” Trump, in a series of postings on […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin together with his Turkish colleague Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a meeting Monday in Istanbul at which special attention was paid to the situation in Syria. Both leaders called for the urgent end of violence in the region. The leaders have agreed […]

Which city is more important for the Islamic State, Syria’s Raqqa, the capital of the terror group’s self-styled caliphate, or Iraq’s Mosul, the much bigger city where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced more than two years ago the creation of his caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria? […]