NATO says ready to boost presence in Kosovo BRUSSELS: NATO said Friday it was ready to increase its peacekeeping force in Kosovo following deadly clashes. The... Published 30 Sep, 2023 12:22pm
World US warns of large Serbian military build-up near Kosovo WASHINGTON: The United States urged Belgrade to pull its forces back from the border with Kosovo on Friday after... Published 30 Sep, 2023 11:21am
World Polling stations open in Slovak election: AFP BRATISLAVA: Polling stations in Slovakia opened on Saturday for an early parliamentary election seen as key to the... Published 30 Sep, 2023 10:28am
World Ukraine forces 'gradually gaining ground': NATO chief KYIV: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday acknowledged that Ukraine’s army was slowing clawing back territory... Updated 28 Sep, 2023 05:43pm
World Kremlin reminds Hillary Clinton of her own gaffe in response to Putin jab MOSCOW: After Hillary Clinton sought to needle President Vladimir Putin over NATO enlargement, the Kremlin on... Published 27 Sep, 2023 06:08pm
World Moscow alleges US, UK aided Ukraine missile strike on Crimea naval HQ MOSCOW: Moscow claimed on Wednesday that Washington and London helped Ukraine orchestrate an unprecedented strike on... Published 27 Sep, 2023 03:13pm
World US army chief and allies discuss Asia-Pacific in India NEW DELHI: Army chiefs and senior officers from 30 countries including the United States met in India Tuesday to... Published 27 Sep, 2023 06:08am
World Turkiye will back Sweden’s NATO bid if US keeps promise on F-16 sale: Erdogan ANKARA: Turkiye’s parliament will keep its promise to ratify Sweden’s NATO bid if US President Joe Biden’s... Published 26 Sep, 2023 03:54pm
World Kosovo police enter northern village after shootout with gunmen killed four JOSEVIK: Kosovar police units in armoured vehicles moved in to secure and search a village in north Kosovo on... Published 25 Sep, 2023 06:43pm
World Second Ukraine wheat shipment reaches Turkiye: tracking sites ISTANBUL: A second shipment of Ukrainian wheat reached Turkiye via the Black Sea on Sunday, according to maritime... Updated 24 Sep, 2023 11:11am
World Ukrainian heavy artillery inflicts 'hell' on Russian lines near Bakhmut NEAR BAKHMUT: The use of heavy weapons supplied by the West in the fierce battle raging on the outskirts of Bakhmut,... Published 24 Sep, 2023 03:32am
World Zelenskiy thanks Canada, says its aid helped save thousands of lives OTTAWA: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday offered a heartfelt thanks to Canada for its help in the... Published 23 Sep, 2023 12:42am
World King Charles’s France trip closing with climate focus BORDEAUX: King Charles III on Friday puts the environment at the heart of the final day of his state visit to... Published 22 Sep, 2023 11:55am
World 'Stop the war' and Zelenskiy won't speak, UN Security Council chair tells Russia UNITED NATIONS: It was to be Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy's first in- person appearance at a U.N.... Published 20 Sep, 2023 10:50pm
World Rising ammunition prices set back NATO efforts to boost security: official OSLO: A top NATO military official warned on Saturday that a drastic rise in ammunition prices means that allies'... Published 17 Sep, 2023 12:10am
World Erdogan accuses EU of ‘distancing itself’ from Turkiye ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused the European Union of pulling away from Turkiye, whose... Published 16 Sep, 2023 05:08pm
World Libya’s flood-ravaged Derna in grisly hunt for thousands still missing DERNA: Emergency teams on Friday kept up their search for the thousands still posted as missing from the... Published 15 Sep, 2023 12:06pm
World Romania finds fresh drone fragments at Ukraine border BUCHAREST: Romanian soldiers on Saturday found fragments of a drone "similar to those used by the Russian army" on... Published 09 Sep, 2023 10:31pm
Opinion Growing Afghan belligerence against Pakistan That this time the Taliban rulers in Kabul have gone too far is a valid statement without any exaggeration as they... Published 08 Sep, 2023 06:01am
World Blinken, Romanian minister discuss drone debris found in Romania near Ukraine border WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Romanian Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu on Thursday held a... Published 08 Sep, 2023 04:49am
World NATO has no indication of intentional Russian attack on Romania BRUSSELS: NATO has no indication that drone debris found on Romanian territory was caused by a deliberate Russian... Published 07 Sep, 2023 05:18pm
World Erdogan takes grain diplomacy to Putin in Sochi ISTANBUL: Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday in a... Published 04 Sep, 2023 10:37am
World Russia hits Ukraine’s Danube port in attack condemned by Romania KYIV: Russian drones targeted Ukraine’s southern Odesa region in the early hours of Sunday, with Moscow hitting a... Published 04 Sep, 2023 06:21am
Editorials Afghan spillover EDITORIAL: Islamabad understands the UN’s (United Nation’s) concerns about TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) and... Published 01 Sep, 2023 05:41am
World Wallace confirms resignation as UK defence minister in letter to PM Sunak LONDON: Ben Wallace confirmed his resignation as defence minister on Thursday in a letter to Rishi Sunak, offering... Published 31 Aug, 2023 12:47pm
World Ukrainian drones attack airport in Russia's northwest MOSCOW: Ukrainian drones damaged at least two military planes at an airport in Russia's northwest, officials said... Published 30 Aug, 2023 10:59pm
World Ukraine says it liberates strategic settlement KYIV: Ukraine said on Monday its troops had liberated the southeastern settlement of Robotyne and were trying to ... Published 29 Aug, 2023 04:08am
World Turkey's leader Erdogan in Hungary for NATO, energy talks BUDAPEST: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest on Sunday,... Published 20 Aug, 2023 11:15pm
Editorials TTP terrorism: a prospect for peace EDITORIAL: On August 12 the Afghan Taliban marked two years of return to power amid heightened tensions with ... Published 20 Aug, 2023 03:20am
World Putin not pushing Belarus to enter war with Ukraine, says Lukashenko Russian President Vladimir Putin is not trying to push Belarus into joining the war in Ukraine, Belarusian President... Published 17 Aug, 2023 11:00pm