Search For Keyword.

Search (still)

Talks to resume as Russia pressures Ukrainian capital Kyiv

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's military forces kept up their punishing campaign to capture Ukraine's capital with fighting and artillery fire in Kyiv's suburbs Monday after an airstrike on a military base near the Polish border brought the war dangerously close to NATO's doorstep. A new...

Syrian doctor fleeing one war is caught by another

Syrian doctor Ossama Jari fled Damascus in 2014 to find peace with his Ukrainian wife in the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv. But now war, and Russian bombs, have caught up with him. In an ophthalmology clinic in the northeast Ingulski district of the city, Jari huddled for safety with other...

The forgotten cry of Yazidi women

On International Women’s Day last week, I remembered a quote by the late UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was known as the Iron Lady: “If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” Last Tuesday, millions of women around the globe were celebrated...

Russian airstrike hits base in western Ukraine, kills 35

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Waves of Russian missiles pounded a military training base near Ukraine’s western border with NATO member Poland, killing 35 people, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday. The strike followed Russian threats to target foreign weapon shipments that are helping Ukrainian...