The news from Munich on Friday that a cease-fire would be declared in Syria within a week was still fresh when Saudi Arabia announced its own initiative: It would send warplanes to Turkey and special ground forces to fight in Syria against the Islamic State organization.
GOVERNMENTS AND pundits were stunned last September when Russia sent an expeditionary force into Syria.
Russian forces, combined with the Iranians and Hezbollah, have changed their tactics in Syria. With a complete disregard to the international community, they are intensively bombing rebel bases, even at the risk of killing thousands of civilians, and starting a new wave of refugees.
Aleppo is in bad shape. More than 60,000 families in the suburbs outside government control will soon run out of the mazut they use to heat their homes and run their bakeries.
The Kremlin has accused Germany of covering up an alleged rape of a Russian 13-year-old girl by ‘Arabic looking men’ for ‘the sake of domestic politics’.
The sudden death this month of writer Vladimir Pribylovsky known for his investigations into the sources of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wealth caused many in Russia to wonder whether anyone can still threaten the president’s entrenched rule.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called on European Jews facing rising anti-Semitism to return to Russia.
The poisoners of Alexander Litvinenko made one major blunder when they used radioactive polonium to kill the former Russian intelligence agent. They chose to carry out their crime in London, the one city in the world with the doctors and medical infrastructure to reveal the cause of his death.
Russia is providing major supplies of arms to the Lebanese-based Hezbollah group in the course of military support that both the Russians and Hezbollah are providing the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Daily Beast reported.
Ukrainian-Jewish billionaire Igor Kolomoisky sued Russia in an international court over his inability to operate an airport in Crimea.