GLENEAGLES, Scotland — The Europeans have the lead. The Americans have the momentum. An opening day of swinging fortunes in the Solheim Cup reached a crescendo in a tension-filled last hour at Gleneagles, with the final two matches of the fourballs going to the 18th hole and the U.S. team staring at a three-point deficit. […]
A team of Taliban negotiators from the militant group’s Qatar office is in Moscow for talks with Russian officials, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that peace talks with U.S. officials have collapsed. TASS quotes Mohammad Sohail Shaheen, the spokesman for the Taliban’s Qatar office, as saying that the Taliban delegation had met […]
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he will discuss buying U.S. Patriot missiles with President Donald Trump this month, saying his personal bond with the U.S. leader could overcome a crisis caused by Ankara buying Russian air defence systems. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during an interview with Reuters in Istanbul, Turkey, September […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department has taken a Soviet-born scientist with U.S. citizenship off its so-called “Russian Oligarch” list following a 20-month lobbying effort and court fight in Washington. Valentin Gapontsev, who has dual Russian and U.S. citizenship, is the first person to get his name taken off the 2018 list, which comprised 96 […]
A rocket exploded at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in the early hours of September 11. No injuries were reported an hour after the blast, according to the AP. Inside the embassy, employees heard the following message over the loudspeaker: “An explosion caused by a rocket has occurred on compound.” There was no official comment […]
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused Tehran of not fully cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying that Iran’s behavior “raises questions about possible undeclared nuclear material or activities.” Pompeo tweeted on September 10 that Tehran’s “lack of cooperation” with the United Nations nuclear watchdog “fits into Iran’s 40-year pattern of […]
WASHINGTON — Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have launched an investigation into whether President Donald Trump is pressuring Ukraine to produce dirt on a potential presidential contender, including by withholding $ 250 million in military aid. The House Committees on Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight and Reform – all controlled by Democrats — […]
BAGRAM AIRFIELD (Reuters) – The U.S. military is likely to accelerate the pace of its operations in Afghanistan to counter an increase in Taliban attacks, a senior U.S. general said on Monday following Washington’s suspension of peace talks with the insurgents. An advisor from the 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade stands at the fortification of […]
(Reuters) – The Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 at the centre of a dispute between Tehran and Western powers, which went dark off Syria earlier in the week, has been photographed by satellite off the Syrian port of Tartus, Maxar Technologies Inc., a U.S. space technology company said on Saturday. FILE PHOTO: A crew […]
Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan is set to participate in a U.S.-Russia meeting on counterterrorism in Vienna on September 9, the State Department says. The Russian government will be represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov, the department said in a statement on September 6. “Despite ongoing concerns with Russia’s destabilizing activity, the United […]