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Things to Know About the Report into Cause of MH17 Disaster
In this July 17, 2014 file photo people walk amongst the debris, at the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine. The Dutch Safety Board is publishing its final report Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015 into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board....
Why The Russians Won’t Win Against Extremists in Iraq | Niqash
Controversial alliance: Protestors supporting Russia and Syria in Moscow in 2012. (photo: اندري سميرنوف) For many Iraqis, the news that came last week of an alliance between Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq was shocking. And it is not just in Syria that this Russian intervention is threatening to carve even deeper fault lines in the Middle East. In...
Why Russia Needs Syria by Amy Knight | NYR Daily
Top, AFP/Getty Images; bottom, AP Photo/Sergei Chirikov, Pool Top, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev, 1980; bottom, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin, 2005 Russia’s entry into the Syrian conflict has fundamentally changed the dynamic of the four-and-a-half-year-old war...
Russia Denies U.S. Claim That Missiles Aimed at Syria Hit Iran
Government OPEN Graphic the main story Related Coverage NATO, Tested by Russia in Syria, Raises Its Guard and Its ToneOCT. 8, 2015 Wary of Escalation in Syria, U.S. Is Waiting Out Putin’s MovesOCT. 8, 2015 News Analysis: An Opportune Moment for Russia’s Foray Into Syria OCT. 8, 2015 Russia’s Kalibr Cruise Missiles, a New Weapon...
$40-billion aid not enough for Ukraine’s economic stability: Minister
Ukrainian finance minister says a 40-billion-dollar aid package is not enough for Kiev’s economic stability. …read more Source:...
Egypt signs deal with France on two Mistral warships
Egypt has signed a deal with France to buy two warships that were originally ordered by Russia but whose sale was canceled by Paris due to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. According to Press TV, the contract was signed on Saturday by the French naval yard DCNS and the Egyptian military in the presence of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and...
Army fire kills civilian in east Ukraine
At least one civilian has reportedly been killed and another injured in purported Ukrainian army fire in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. According to the reports, pro-Russia sources in Donetsk made the announcement on Saturday, without specifying what kind of weapon had been used in the fatal incident. “According to initial reports, the...
‘Army fire kills civilian in east Ukraine’
At least one civilian has reportedly been killed and another injured in purported Ukrainian army fire in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. …read more Source: Iran...
‘Army fire kills civilian in east Ukraine’
At least one person is reportedly killed and another wounded in Ukrainian army fire in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
How Syria is becoming a test bed for high-tech weapons of electronic warfare
The relationship between Russia and the West is becoming increasingly dangerous with potential flashpoints developing in both eastern Europe and Syria. After repeated incursions into Turkish airspace by Russian warplanes on bombing raids over Syria, NATO’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg warned Moscow that it stands ready to “defend all...
