Section: Iran
Russia, Ukraine stop direct flights as part of mutual ban
Direct flights between Russia and Ukraine are cancelled as part of a mutual ban amid tensions between Moscow and Kiev over the crisis in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
EU sanctions on Russia achieved no goal: Commentator
A commentator says EU sanctions on Russia have failed to force Moscow to cave in. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s Donetsk region bans MSF, UN agencies
Donetsk bans MSF and some UN agencies from continuing their activities in the eastern Ukranian region. …read more Source:...
Russia, US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia start Syria talks
Senior diplomats from Russia, the US, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are meeting in Vienna on Friday for key talks on the war in Syria that excludes Iran, a key player The top diplomats of Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States started key talks on Friday in Vienna to try to find a way to end the Syrian conflict. Russian Foreign Minister...
Merkel: EU sanctions against Russia tied to implementation of Minsk agreement
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says EU sanctions against Russia will remain in place if the implementation of the Minsk agreement is delayed. …read more Source:...
Iran marches, Russia rules, Obama watches
Guess who just popped up in the Kremlin? Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator and destroyer, now Vladimir Putin’s newest pet. After four years holed up in Damascus, Assad was summoned to Russia to bend a knee to Putin, show the world that today Middle East questions get settled not in Washington but in Moscow, and officially bless the...
No need to distinguish between ‘moderate’ & other terrorists — RT News
There can be no “moderate” terrorists, President Putin said, speaking about the situation in the Middle East at the Valdai discussion forum. “Why play with words dividing terrorists into moderate and not moderate. What’s the difference?” Putin told the forum. A whole “snarl” of terrorist groups act in the...
Vladimir Putin accuses US of backing terrorism in Middle East | World news
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has launched a stinging attack on US policy in the Middle Eas, accusing Washington of backing terrorism and playing a “double game” in the Middle East. In a speech on Thursday at the annual gathering of the Valdai Club, a group of Russian and international analysts and politicians, Putin said the US had...
The murky story behind Netanyahu’s claim of a Palestinian role in the Holocaust
Haj Amin al-Husseini with Adolph Hitler. In 1941, Adolph Hitler’s war in Europe was going pretty well. The Nazis had invaded Poland in 1939, and France the following year. While the Blitz hadn’t finished off the United Kingdom, the United States was, at least, still not officially in the fight. On Nov. 28 of that year, Hitler took the...
Moscow dispatches humanitarian convoy to Ukraine’s east
Russia has sent a humanitarian aid convoy to the residents of Ukraine’s crisis-hit east, where a relatively stable ceasefire is holding following months of fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia forces. A ministry spokesperson told Russia’s TASS news agency early on Thursday “At 04.00 a.m. Moscow time, the Russian...
