Russia wants more details about U.S. special forces deployment in Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia wants to know more details about U.S. plans to bolster its special forces in Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
China and Turkey vow greater anti-terrorism cooperation
BEIJING (Reuters) – Turkey will not allow its soil to be used for activities that damage China’s security, the two countries’ foreign ministers agreed on Wednesday, following recent disputes over China’s Muslim Uighur ethnic minority that had soured ti…
Nearly two dozen U.S.-led strikes hit Islamic State in Iraq: statement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies conducted 23 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq on Tuesday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on its latest round of daily strikes against the militant group.
In Damascus, young Syrians try to revive their lives
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – By a military checkpoint in Damascus’s Old City, just a mile from the battered frontline between government and rebel-held territory, young Syrians sit on a garden wall smoking, drinking beer or soft drinks, and talking about anyth…
Russia: Latvia, Lithuania politicians stir up anti-Russian feelings
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday accused politicians in next-door Latvia and Lithuania of stirring up anti-Russian feelings.
Russia says Britain’s human rights report not objective
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday the British Foreign Office’s report on human rights record in Russia amounted to interference in its internal affairs and was detached from reality and not objective.
Turkish PM says secularism will be in new constitution
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s new constitution will retain secularism as a principle, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Wednesday, playing down comments from the parliamentary speaker who triggered a public uproar by calling for a religious national…
Sweden’s Migration Agency cuts forecast for asylum seekers this year
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s Migration Agency expects up to 100,000 asylum seekers in 2016 after last year’s record influx, a new forecast showed on Wednesday.
Exiled Tibetans re-elect leader to spearhead autonomy drive
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) – Tibetans in exile have re-elected a Harvard-educated lawyer as their political leader to spearhead a campaign to press China to grant Tibet autonomy, a Tibetan government-in-exile said on Wednesday.
With Kunduz in crosshairs again, Afghan forces draw on past mistakes
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Bullet-ridden bunkers and signposts shredded by rockets bear witness to dozens of Taliban attacks this month on police posts around Kunduz, the northern Afghan city that fell briefly in September in the insurgents’ bigge…
