Aleppo, Syria – Abu Ahmad flashes his phone’s torch onto an explosive he found in the basement of a building that used to be a regime military outpost housing soldiers, tanks and ammunition during the Syrian war. Now Abu Ahmad commands a base for the Syria Civil Defence, or White Helmets, in the building. The … Read more
A public meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy descended into a spat. A visit that Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelenskyy hoped would secure US support in the face of Russia’s invasion, instead ended in a very public argument. The meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House was supposed to be about signing … Read more
Experts debate the future of Ukraine as the US warms up to Russia and US-European relations shift. United States President Donald Trump’s administration flipped the script on US-Europe relations in February. European officials were berated for being antidemocratic and were told their involvement was not needed in ending the Ukraine war. Meanwhile, US and Russian … Read more
Zelenskyy said that, during the past week, Russia has sent nearly 1,150 attack drones, more than 1,400 guided aerial bombs and 35 missiles of various types against Ukraine. In a statement Saturday evening, the Ukrainian president reiterated his call for security guarantees. “Security guarantees are what unite the vast majority. Europe, America, and all our … Read more
Wang met his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Johannesburg on Thursday. Wang’s remarks come after American and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia this week, without Kyiv’s involvement, to discuss ending the conflict. The talks in Riyadh have raised fears that Washington and Moscow could broker a peace … Read more
Donald Trump launches tirade against Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The new US administration has revealed a stunning reversal of US policy on the war in Ukraine. US President Donald Trump accused his Ukrainian counterpart of misleading the US into spending billions of dollars on a war that could not be won. He also blamed Volodymyr Zelenskyy for … Read more
Ukrainian and European Union leaders not invited to Russia-US talks in Riyadh. High-level US and Russian delegates have met in Saudi Arabia’s capital to discuss the war in Ukraine – the first meeting of its kind in three years. But Ukrainian and European Union leaders weren’t invited. President Vladimir Putin seems to have already divided … Read more
The US president is reaching across the divide and says Russia and Ukraine both want peace. “This is the beginning of the end.” That’s the message the United States president is sending to the leaders of Russia and Ukraine. Donald Trump seems confident a deal can be struck to bring a permanent end to the … Read more
Economist Joseph Gagnon argues that tariffs and the shuttering of USAID won’t resolve the US national deficit. Though cost cuts pursued by US President Donald Trump may be popular among many Americans, economists differ in their assessment of these measures’ potential outcomes. Peterson Institute for International Economics senior fellow Joseph Gagnon tells host Steve Clemons … Read more
Streets strewn with rubble and piles of ruins where their homes once stood. This is what displaced residents are confronted with upon returning to their town of Tal Rifaat in northern Syria, a crucial battleground in the conflict between Syrian Kurdish fighters and Turkish armed groups. During Syria’s war, Tal Rifaat became part of the … Read more