Section: Time (USA)
This British Family Hiked to Stonehenge to Take a Selfie With Obama
After spending a couple days at a NATO summit in Wales tending to international issues like the challenge of Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria and the West’s role in the Ukraine crisis, President Barack Obama finally got down business Friday with a surprise visit to Stonehenge. “How cool is this,” he said. “It’s spectacular,...
Ukraine Cease-Fire Begins, but U.S. Still Skeptical
(MINSK, Belarus) — Ukraine, Russia and the Kremlin-backed separatists signed a cease-fire deal Friday after five months of bloodshed, and Europe readied additional sanctions on Moscow. NATO leaders created a new force designed to prevent any aggression by Russia against alliance members. MoreUkraine Signs Cease-Fire With Pro-Russia RebelsUkraine...
Obama Vows to ‘Degrade and Destroy’ ISIS
MoreU.S. Forms Anti-ISIS Coalition at NATO SummitISIS Is Not Just Un-Islamic, It Is Anti-IslamicChairman Mike Rogers: We Will Have to Risk American Lives to Defeat ISISPresident Barack Obama said Friday that the United States and its allies are preparing to “take the fight,” to the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), saying the world...
Miscommunication Blamed for Deadly U.S. Mistake
(WASHINGTON) — Avoidable miscommunication between U.S. air and ground forces led to a “friendly fire” incident in Afghanistan that killed five U.S. soldiers and one Afghan in June, according to a military investigation report. MoreAfghan Militants May Join ISIS Says Their CommanderFive Best Ideas of the Day: August 26Watch Live: Obama Discusses...
Ukraine Signs Cease-Fire With Pro-Russia Rebels
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced Friday that Kiev has reached agreement on a ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Poroshenko confirmed that Ukrainian envoys negotiating with rebels, representatives from Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Minsk, Belarus, signed the ceasefire...
Ukraine Signs Cease-Fire With Pro-Russian Rebels
(MINSK, Belarus) — Ukraine and the Russian-backed rebels have signed a cease-fire deal that starts in less than two hours, a European official at the talks said Friday. MoreUkraine Signs Cease-Fire With Pro-Russia RebelsTalks on Ukraine Cease-Fire Start in Belarus’Meet’ the President: What to Watch for in Obama’s Interview NBC...
NATO Authorizes New Rapid Response Force to Deter Russia
NATO will create a new military force based in eastern Europe designed to mobilize quickly in the event of a hostile incursion into the region, officials said Friday. “Should you even think of attacking one ally, you will be facing the whole alliance,” NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday at the close of a two-day summit in...
NATO Approves New Force Aimed at Deterring Russia
(NEWPORT, Wales) — Seeking to counter Russian aggression, NATO leaders approved plans Friday to dispatch several thousand troops in Eastern Europe that could quickly mobilize if an alliance country in the region comes under attack. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the new unit would send a clear message to potential aggressors....
Talks on Ukraine Cease-Fire Start in Belarus
(MINSK, Belarus) — The talks expected to bring a much-anticipated cease-fire to the fighting in eastern Ukraine have started in the Belarusian capital. Negotiators representing Ukraine, Russia, the pro-Russian rebels and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe opened Friday in Minsk. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said...
NATO Too Wary of Russian Threats to Let Ukraine Join
With its aggression against Ukraine, Russia achieved in just a few months what Vadim Grechaninov has been trying to do for a decade. His mission as President of the Atlantic Council of Ukraine, a lobbying organization based in Kiev, has been to convince his country’s leaders, citizens and military officers that joining NATO is...
