Rebels say Russia-led raids target cities in Syria northwest
Syrian rebel commanders and rights groups said on Monday Russia and its Syrian ally are stepping up aerial strikes on heavily populated cities, in a new and bloodier phase of a three-month-old assault on the last opposition bastion in the northwest.
Rebels say Russia-led raids target cities in Syria northwest
Syrian rebel commanders and rights groups said on Monday Russia and its Syrian ally are stepping up aerial strikes on heavily populated cities, in a new and bloodier phase of a three-month-old assault on the last opposition bastion in the northwest.
Trump wants forces reduced in Afghanistan by next U.S. election: Pompeo
U.S. President Donald Trump wants combat forces reduced in Afghanistan by the next U.S. presidential election, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday, introducing a timeline to Washington’s plan of cutting troop numbers there.
Trump wants forces reduced in Afghanistan by next U.S. election: Pompeo
U.S. President Donald Trump wants combat forces reduced in Afghanistan by the next U.S. presidential election, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday, in comments that underlined the growing pressure from Washington to cut troop numbers there.
Canadian air force joins search for fugitive murder suspects in remote area
Canada’s air force has been called in to a tiny community in northern Manitoba, where two teens suspected of three murders were thought to have been last seen, police said on Monday, as the chase entered a second week.
Attack on Yemen market kills more than 10, warring parties trade blame
An attack on a market killed at least 10 civilians including children in Yemen’s northern Saada province on Monday, a medical source and the warring parties who blamed each other said.
Two U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan
Two U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan on Monday, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said in a statement, as the United States seeks to reach a negotiated end to the nearly 18-year-old war.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro says no evidence indigenous leader murdered
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday said there was no evidence an indigenous chief, whose death was decried by the U.N. commissioner for human rights, was killed by wildcat miners said to have invaded protected tribal lands.
Mass decapitations as at least 52 killed in Brazil prison riot
At least 52 inmates died, with 16 decapitated, in a prison riot on Monday in the northern Brazilian state of Para, the state’s prison authority said, underlining the struggle Brazil’s far-right government faces to restore order in the country’s jails.
Libya’s Mitiga airport resumes air traffic after strikes: witness
Air space re-opened at the Libyan capital’s only functioning airport, Mitiga, on Monday an hour after it was closed by strikes, a witness said.
