UN warns against letting Syria crisis ‘spiral’ out of control
By AFP – Apr 12,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Washington – The United Nations warned world powers against letting the crisis over an alleged chemical attack against civilians in Syria from […]
LDS prophet poised to launch global tour Tuesday after making historic changes to help boost international Mormonism
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack By any measure, the new Mormon prophet is an optimist. In a move at once audacious and somewhat inexplicable, for example, 93-year-old Russell M. Nelson stood at the pulpit at the conclusion of his first LDS General Conference as the faith’s 17th president […]
Syria war: Attacks hit Syrian airbase in Homs province
Source: Al Jazeera News Missiles have struck a Syrian airbase in Homs province early on Monday, state media reported, with Russia and Syria blaming Israel for carrying out the attack. Two Israeli […]
Gay Chechens flee threats, beatings and exorcism
Source: BBC News Family pressure has fuelled a sense of persecution felt by gay people in Chechnya, a mainly Muslim region in southern Russia. Dozens have fled and some have […]
Turkey, Russia, Iran urge ‘lasting ceasefire’ in Syria
‘No breakthrough announced’ following meeting between ‘brittle alliance’ By AFP – Apr 05,2018 -JORDAN TIMES ANKARA, Turkey — The presidents of Iran, Turkey and Russia vowed to work for […]
Russia calls UN security council meeting over nerve agent attack
Source: CNN Russia’s UN ambassador has requested the United Nations Security Council convene a special meeting for Thursday afternoon amid an ongoing diplomatic feud with the UK that began in an English country town and has spread to include London’s allies around the world. A month after former Russian double […]
Erdoğan, Putin launch Turkey’s first nuclear plant in Akkuyu
DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin review a guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential Palace Complex […]
Impacts of ‘Russia, West’ tensions on the Middle East
Apr 01,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh Over the past week, the US and its European allies have taken serious coordinated measures against Russia by expelling Russian diplomats […]
These are the faces of those who have been affected by the siege of Eastern Ghouta
Robert Fisk discovers it would take a year, if not a decade, to understand the killing and the cynicism and the innocent suffering behind this epic battle Robert Fisk in Eastern Ghouta […]
The West’s unilateral Cold War
Mar 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Sergei Karaganov MOSCOW — Rising tensions between the United Kingdom and Russia are but further proof that Russia and the West, according to no […]
Russia and Taliban deny US claims of working together
Source: BBC News Russia and the Taliban have separately rejected comments made by the head of US forces in Afghanistan that Moscow has been supporting, and even supplying weapons to, […]
Why are politicians comparing everything to the Second World War?
By contrast, the Russians have avoided all mention of their own World Wars – an infinitely greater sacrifice in the second than all the other allies put together – and have shrewdly marketed their response and RT’s propaganda around our own failure to ask obvious questions Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday […]
After Documenting Nazi Crimes, A French Priest Exposes ISIS Attacks On Yazidis
Source: NPR BY ELEANOR BEARDSLEY Patrick Desbois, a Roman Catholic priest, has spent the last 15 years investigating and uncovering the details of Nazi massacres across Eastern Europe and Russia, crimes […]
Russia election: Muted Western reaction to Putin victory
Source: BBC News World leaders are congratulating Vladimir Putin on his election for a new six-year term as Russian president, but Western leaders have been slow to respond amid recent […]
Russia Is Now a Rogue State. We Must Treat It Like One
Source: Time By TOM TUGENDHAT Tom Tugendhat is a Conservative Party member of parliament and chairs the U.K. foreign affairs select committee On Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed what many already […]
Spy poisoning: Putin most likely behind attack – Johnson
Source: BBC News Russian President Vladimir Putin is “overwhelmingly likely” to have ordered the nerve agent attack on an ex-spy and his daughter, Boris Johnson has said. The foreign […]
Russian spy: Moscow vows swift response on expulsions
Source: BBC News Moscow has vowed there will be a swift response to the expulsion of 23 of its diplomats by Britain. President Vladimir Putin would make a final decision […]
Islam in Russia
By 2020, Muslims are expected to account for one-fifth of the population. 7 Mar 2018 Grand Mufti of Russia Sheikh Rawil Gaynetdin speaks during an interview in Moscow, Russia on […]
Russia embraces Pakistan with gas and diplomacy
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: As US influence in Islamabad wanes, former adversary Moscow is building military, diplomatic and economic ties that could upend historic alliances in the region and open up […]
Putin’s bravado speech
Mar 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Russian President Vladimir Putin’s State of the Union address on Thursday at the Federal Assembly came ahead of the Russian presidential elections due to […]