Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Fighting Rages Around Donetsk Airport In East Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Russian rebels pressed Friday to seize a key airport in eastern Ukraine despite fierce resistance by government forces. An AP reporter on Friday saw three rebel tanks firing their cannons at the main terminal of Donetsk airport, where government forces have holed up. Sniper shots rang around the area. Rebels have made...
The War on ISIS is Improvised Without a Clear Roadmap
Everything we know and everything that is being said publicly and repeatedly indicates that this war could last for years. We do not know exactly what strategy President Barack Obama has in his war on ISIS. This terrorist group has succeeded in luring the US president into a war, effectively putting itself on the map, if not seized the map at its...
Bomb Hits Red Cross Building In Ukraine’s Donetsk, 1 Killed
MOSCOW, Oct 2 (Reuters) – A mortar bomb hit a building used by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine’s separatist-held city of Donetsk on Thursday, killing a Swiss citizen, Russian news agency Interfax quoted the rebels’ defense ministry as saying. A Reuters witness at the scene saw the body of a middle-aged...
The World Leaders Who Cannot Set Foot in America
By Emily Cadei, OZY No doubt that on Monday, when Indian leader Narendra Modi visits the White House, he and President Obama will try to stick to the agenda: economic and security cooperation, India’s relations with Pakistan and China, and how the world’s two largest democracies can build better ties. But the media in both countries...
Barack Obama and the Will to Fight
The Obama administration has admitted that it misjudged the extremists who set up the Islamic State in chunks of territory torn from Iraq and Syria. The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, confessed that his analysts underestimated the “will to fight” of the jihadists. He also linked it to intelligence failures of the...
Ukraine Will Have to Live With Putin’s Delusions
As the Russo-Ukrainian war has shown, Russian elites perceive reality differently from their Western and Ukrainian counterparts. Where the former see a “fascist coup” in Kyiv, the latter see a democratic revolution on the Maidan. Where the former see Viktor Yanukovych as a legitimate president, the latter see a corrupt and...
Ukraine Rebels Close In On Donetsk Airport
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Rebels in eastern Ukraine appeared to be successfully closing in on the government-held airport in Donetsk Wednesday, a strategic victory for the pro-Russian separatists that further undermines a shaky cease-fire in the region. Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko told journalists...
Ukraine Conflict: Shelling Hits School Playground And Minivan In Donetsk, Killing 10
(Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed on Wednesday when shells hit a school playground and a mini-van in a nearby street in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, city authorities and Reuters witnesses said. There were no children among those killed in the shelling at School No. 57 on the first day of the new school year, though witnesses said...
Guns of Autumn– Or an Uneasy Truce in Ukraine?
UNITED NATIONS – Russia wants to make sure Ukraine does not float westward and has sent in its own troops when the separatists could not handle it. But will Moscow support the rebels’ call for independence in the eastern industrial heartland? Despite many denials by Moscow, evidence had mounted daily that Russia had sent fighters and...
What Shale Gas Revolution Means for International Energy Geopolitics and New World Order?
Highlights: – World energy geopolitics tied to North American energy – Shale gas revolution has yet to reach emerging markets – Shale gas revolution can only reach to the rest if North America acts as a single energy market The future of energy sources and it’s geopolitics can be discussed from many angles; exciting...
