Exclusive: Turkey to deploy troops inside Syria’s Idlib – Erdogan
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Turkey will deploy troops in Syria’s northern Idlib region as part of a so-called de-escalation agreement brokered by Russia last month.
Ukraine president says Trump shares vision on ‘new level’ of defense cooperation
KIEV/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko met U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday and said afterwards that they had a shared vision on a “new level” of defense cooperation, but not whether this included the U.S. provision of defensive we…
Mexico rescuers in race to find trapped survivors 48 hours after quake
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Rescuers toiled on Thursday to extract survivors, including Taiwanese workers, from collapsed buildings after Mexico’s deadliest earthquake in 32 years, but the Navy said no children were now trapped at a school at the heart of …
Trump orders new sanctions to tighten screws on North Korea nuclear program
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump ordered new sanctions on Thursday that open the door wider to blacklisting people and entities doing business with North Korea, further tightening the screws on Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs.
U.S., Russian generals talk face-to-face on Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and Russian generals held a face-to-face meeting this week in an effort to avoid accidental clashes as both sides fight to retake what is left of Islamic State’s territory in Syria, U.S. military officials said on Thursday.
Union protests against French labor reform losing steam
PARIS (Reuters) – Far-left trade unionists marched through cities across France on Thursday in a second day of protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s overhaul of a labor code long cherished by workers, although their numbers were lower than a week…
Turkey, Iran, Iraq consider counter-measures over Kurdish referendum
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey, Iran and Iraq have agreed to consider counter-measures against Kurdish northern Iraq over a planned independence referendum, Turkey’s foreign ministry said on Thursday.
Ukraine President says Trump backs U.N. deployment along border with Russia
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday said U.S. President Donald Trump had expressed his support for the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers across Ukraine’s eastern conflict zone and along its whole border with Russia.
Syrian army fights IS in Deir al-Zor as U.S.-backed forces loom
DEIR AL-ZOR, Syria (Reuters) – The Syrian army field commander standing by the Euphrates River predicted that Islamic State militants would very soon be “purged” from its opposite bank.
Trump to add sanctions on North Korea, but not on oil: U.S.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States will add more sanctions against North Korea, while U.S. allies have called for enforcing existing international sanctions as the best way to get Pyongyang to give up it…
