It all started with French President Francois Hollande, after the Paris attacks, having the temerity to advance the idea of France working together with Russia in the same coalition against ISIS/ISIL/Daesh in Syria.
"I've shown photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil and petroleum products," Vladimir Putin told reporters earlier this month on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Antalya.
International whistleblower organization WikiLeaks is casting blame on the United States, United Kingdom and France for the terror attacks Friday that have killed at least 140 people.
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The Paris SWAT team waited around two hours before entering the building, despite tweets from hostages suggesting that the terrorists were killing people indiscriminately.
By now, all of you will have read about the U.S. military's recent bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. What you may not be aware of, is how much the official story has changed in the days since this inexcusable act
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The Russians have unleashed their own version of "shock and awe" in Syria, and the brutal efficiency of their airstrikes against ISIS targets has stunned many observers around the globe.
The Indian government has taken on pornography in its latest Internet clampdown, sparking debates about individual liberties: Its Department of Telecommunications ordered ISPs to block access to 857 websites that host adult or pornographic content.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) comprises Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. In recent years it has faced severe internal divisions, especially a Saudi-Qatar split over the Muslim Brotherhood, which Riyadh wa
An Egyptian court has sentenced former President Mohamed Morsi to death on Tuesday on charges of killing, kidnapping and other offences during a 2011 mass jailbreak.
The Vatican announced this week that they will be formally recognizing the state of Palestine, with a treaty that shifts diplomatic allegiance from the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the state of Palestine.
Saudi warplanes attacked a residential district in the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa today, killing at least 10 civilians and wounding scores of others.
With the recent military operations on the part of the Arab League against the Yemeni Houthi rebels, much has been made of the operation in the mainstream media outlets.
Turkish Ambassador in Ukraine cites potential danger to Istanbul's population as the reason - says Ankara would not allow passage to any Black Sea nation
Regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran traded accusations Tuesday over the escalating conflict in Yemen, which the UN rights chief warned was on the brink of "total collapse".
The negotiations in Switzerland are stuck on two stubborn problems as the tension ramps up ahead of a 31 March cutoff date, writes Julian Borger in Lausanne
Yemen's Houthi forces, which control the capital city of Sanaa and most of the nation's west coast, are continuing to make major gains across the nation's south and east, in spite of a Saudi war against them.
Sedef Kabas, a leading Turkish journalist, was arrested in another example of the rollback on civil liberties under President Erdogan. As part of his attack on secularism and his introduction of Islamic laws into Turkey's government,
Friday marked the death knell of the internationally-backed post-Arab Spring order in Yemen, whose parliament and government were finally dissolved by the Iranian-allied Houthi rebels who took over Sa'ana in late 2014.