Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said it was "out of the question for the moment" that Turkish troops would withdraw from Iraq, after Baghdad accused Ankara of sending them in without permission, according to Reuters. The row has badly soured relations and saw the Turkish ambassador to Iraq summoned...
Russian-backed militants attacked Ukrainian troops in eastern Ukraine 25 times on Thursday, most of the attacks were concentrated in the Donetsk sector, according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). "The combined Russian-separatist forces have not stopped their armed provocations in the ATO zone...
Russia's initial costs on the war in Syria were planned at $3.3 million a day, but grew to $8 million from the middle of November, according to Bloomberg. "Russia initially earmarked just $1.2 billion for the war for all of 2016, an official familiar with the matter said. Outlays were running at about $4 million a day...
A Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry combat vehicle participating in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) in Donbas has hit a landmine not far from the village of Opytne while moving from one position to another, according to the ATO press service. "Unfortunately, the Ukrainian forces suffered casualties as a result of the...
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 39 times overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation wrote on Facebook early Wednesday. "The pro-Russian gangs once again violated the Minsk agreements in the last day. The militants fired small arms, heavy machine...
Turkey has not withdrawn any troops from Iraq following an ultimatum from Baghdad, a senior Turkish official said on Monday, according to Reuters. An official said that Ankara was in discussions with Iraq's defense ministry and could reduce the size of its forces, Reuters wrote. Turkey sent hundreds of soldiers to a camp in...
One Ukrainian soldier was killed in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone in Donbas in the last day, according to Press Secretary of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration for ATO issues Oleksandr Motuzianyk. "In the past 24 hours, one Ukrainian soldier died in hostilities. This happened in the village of...
Ksenia Sobchak gave a speech to the Federal Assembly of Russia as Putin. Ksenia Sobchak has recently become known as an opposition politician regime. She recently parodied the speech of Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly. Ksenia Sobchak, on behalf of the President of Russia, stated the importance of addressing the Turkish...
One Ukrainian soldier was killed in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone in Donbas in the last day, according to Press Secretary of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration for ATO issues Oleksandr Motuzianyk. "In the past 24 hours, one Ukrainian soldier died in hostilities. This happened in the village of...
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and another three were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone in the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday, according to an UNIAN correspondent. "In the last day, we lost one Ukrainian...
After the liberation of German-occupied territories of European countries, thousands of women who are in relationships with German soldiers and officers were subject to humiliating and brutal executions of their fellow citizens. Especially popular such breaches were the French. After years of occupation, many vented their anger...
The Kremlin's opportunistic tactics to conquer and hold land in Ukraine has remained unchanged since Russian troops began their 2014 invasion, according to Euan MacDonald, the editor of the English-language newspaper The Kyiv Post, Ukraine Today reports. The journalist argues that the worst-case but unlikely scenario, the...