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ToniBler and Klinton: Gratitude for West lives on in Kosovar names
Mar 21, 2019 (AFP)
"If it was not for (Bill) Clinton, we would all be dead, this country would not be independent and I would not play football with friends," said 16-year-old Kli...
Twenty years ago, NATO launches strikes on Serbia
Mar 21, 2019 (AFP)
It was the alliance's first intervention against a sovereign state in its 50-year history. Thirteen months earlier, Milosevic had deployed troops into Kosovo, t...
Russia defence minister meets Assad on Syria visit
Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)
"With Russia's support, a significant success in the fight against terrorism has been achieved," Shoigu said, according to a statement published by Moscow's def...
Israel says hits 100 Hamas targets in Gaza in reprisal attack
Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)
"Fighter planes, attack helicopters and (other) IDF aircraft attacked overnight about 100 terror targets of the Hamas terror organisation in the Gaza Strip," Is...
UN pushes back against Duque's challenge to Colombia peace deal
Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)
"The current government will have the historic responsibility to continue with the full implementation of the peace agreement," Alberto Brunori, the UN's human ...
Diehard Syria jihadists go down all guns blazing
Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)
Defeat is guaranteed, but a few diehard Islamic State fighters defending the last tiny, smouldering vestige of their once-sprawling "caliphate" are refusing to ...
US-backed Syria force pummels last IS bastion
Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)
All that remains of a sprawling cross-border "caliphate" the jihadists declared in 2014 is a battered riverside camp in eastern Syria on the Iraqi border. The U...
Arlington National Cemetery land expansion to begin next year
Mar 14, 2019 (UPI)
The cemetery will grow southward in Virginia on property formerly occupied by the Navy Annex. The plan will add 37 acres and "extend the cemetery's active life,...
Russian air raids kill 13 civilians in Syria: monitor
Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said around 60 people were also wounded in the air strikes that struck several areas in the northwestern p...
UN warned of effort to 'seriously damage' Colombia peace deal
Mar 12, 2019 (AFP)
Delegates from the FARC and the government of former president Juan Manuel Santos sent a letter to UN chief Antonio Guterres in which they questioned the object...
Srebrenica survivors hope Karadzic gets life sentence
Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)
More than 23 years after the mass killings in Srebrenica, in which nearly 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were slaughtered by Bosnian Serb forces, the former Bosnian...
Year on, Egypt still locked in Sinai battle with jihadists
Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)
Around 50 suspected Islamic militants were killed in the restive region on Monday, the army said. - What is North Sinai? - The Sinai peninsula covers 60,000 squ...
US 'optimistic' France, Britain will join stay-behind Syria force
Mar 10, 2019 (AFP)
"Certainly in conversations this past week with my British and French counterparts, I'm very optimistic that they're going to participate," John Bolton said, in...
Death and despair in last IS Syria bastion
Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)
The crackle and thud of gunfire and shelling filled the air as plumes of thick black smoke rose over the bombed-out village of Baghouz, the last sliver of terri...
US, Russia military chiefs discuss Syria
Mar 04, 2019 (AFP)
General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian General Staff, in Vienna, Dunford...
Syria force evacuates 'human shields' in push to crush IS remnant
Mar 04, 2019 (AFP)
The Syrian Democratic Forces and its allies from the US-led coalition unleashed a deluge of fire on the village of Baghouz at the weekend to break the defences ...
US, Russian military chiefs to meet on Syria
Mar 03, 2019 (AFP)
General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will represent the US side in the meeting with General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Rus...
Syria force pounds holdout IS village
Mar 03, 2019 (AFP)
Islamic State group fighters holed up in Baghouz, the last sliver of the once-sprawling "caliphate" that their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed in 2014, r...
Fighter to minister: Philippine Muslim rebel's new 'struggle'
Feb 24, 2019 (AFP)
Murad has been tapped to lead the majority-Catholic nation's brand new territory in the restive south where Muslims have won new powers and an influx of cash in...
EU sees first Arab summit as response to Russia, China
Feb 24, 2019 (AFP)
Host Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi painted a "bleak" picture for a region hit by wars and terrorism as he appealed for deeper cooperation, in his open...
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