President Putin stated that his country and China are determined to turn their common border into a strip of peace.
On Monday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping announced the extension of the 2001 Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Treaty (GNF).
The operation was Joe Biden’s second use of force in the region. He ordered airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia targets in eastern Syria in February.
The U.S. military conducted airstrikes against facilities used by the Ketaib Hezbollah militia in the Iraq-Syria border region on Sunday.
If the US rate of response is only two retaliatory rounds of strikes to dozens of attacks since January, the US is not deterring the pro-Iran groups.
For the second time this year, the Biden administration has responded to threats to US forces in Iraq by carrying out airstrikes.
The United States military said on Sunday it targeted operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq.
At least four members of Shi’ite militias were killed in “defensive precision airstrikes” which US President Joe Biden ordered against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups along the Iraq-Syria border region on Sunday night.
Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied charges that he was deliberately trying to harm Israel’s relationship with the Biden administration.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu was acting “childishly and irresponsible” by attempting to harm ties between the new Israeli government and the Biden administration, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a closed-door meeting of his Yamina faction.
The group describes its mission as “encouraging Turkey to adopt more democratic policies and responding to the steady erosion of Turkey’s democratic institutions.”
John Bolton, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, says he’s joined the advisory council of the Turkish Democracy Project, a newly launched nonprofit, “to shine a light on the darkening situation” in Turkey.
There are concerns about the Islamic State’s ability to still operate within and close to Turkish territory.
Turkish police arrested 26 people on Monday for allegedly being linked to the Islamic State (IS).
The UN nuclear watchdog said June 25 that it has not received a response from Iran about extending an interim atomic monitoring agreement, after the United States and France warned that not doing so could imperil talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
“Afghans are going to have to decide their future,” U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday in his first face-to-face meeting with Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani.
The two met in the White House Oval Office as U.S. forces continued their withdrawal from the nation in south-central Asia.
The morning after a Russian-American summit is most critical to know whether the previous day’s bonhomie was real, surreal or unreal. Surveying the Geneva Summit (June 16) between presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, I cautiously assessed the next day,