Ukrainian protesters poured on to a central Kiev square on Wednesday, preparing to confront police anew after the bloodiest day since the former Soviet republic, caught in a geopolitical struggle between Russia and the West, won its independence. After hours of...
In video statement posted online a group of 9 Free Syrian Army commanders said Gen. Salim Idriss dismissal is void, accusing the opposition Interim Defence Ministry of dispersing the rows of Joint Chiefs of Staff and revolutionary groups on the battlefields. The...
US Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday intervened as a political crisis in Ukraine turned deadly, calling President Viktor Yanukovych and saying he should withdraw government forces who stormed a protest camp. "Vice President Biden called Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych today to...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Tunisia on Tuesday to praise democratic progress in the country where the "Arab Spring" began and discuss the threat of Islamist militants there. After a crisis last year brought on by the killing of two opposition...
