On Tuesday, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia accused Ukraine of supporting militants in Syria fighting under the command of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an al-Qaeda offshoot that led the takeover of Aleppo. The accusation came a few days after the Kyiv...
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged in an interview last week that the West is waging a "proxy war" against Russia in Ukraine and argued NATO hasn't done enough to achieve victory. "We’re waging a proxy war, but we’re not giving our proxies the...
On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was willing to temporarily cede territory to Russia to bring an end to the war in exchange for NATO protection over Ukraine. "If we want to stop the hot stage of the war, we should take under [the] NATO...
Beginning late Wednesday, the Syrian Islamist rebel faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a major offensive out of the Idlib Province into the Aleppo Province. The result is heavy fighting and airstrikes, and it is now being reported HTS has reached the city of...
The Syrian Civil War never really ended, but it certainly had quieted down for a time, with various factions confined to various areas, and the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seeming stuck in Idlib Province. Today the war is flaring up again in a big way. HTS...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday suggested Russia could strike "decision-making centers" in Ukraine with its new Oreshnik missile as a potential response to Ukraine firing US and British missiles into Russian territory. "The Defense Ministry and the...
The White House is pressuring Ukraine to increase the size of its military by lowering the minimum age of conscription from 25 to 18, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday. A senior Biden administration official said the outgoing administration wants Ukraine to...
On Tuesday, the Kremlin responded to a recent report from The New York Times that said US and European officials had discussed the idea of giving Ukraine nuclear weapons, calling the talk "absolutely irresponsible." The report cited anonymous sources and said several...
Russia said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces fired US-provided Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) into Russia's Kursk Oblast twice in recent days and vowed there would be a response. The Russian Defense Ministry said Ukraine fired five ATACMS against Russian S-400...
The White House confirmed for the first time on Monday that it authorized Ukraine to launch US-provided Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) into Russia, an escalation Russia has made clear risks nuclear war. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the...
