…after setting off his own suicide vest’ during a US Special Ops raid on his Syrian lair following a five-year manhunt The leader of the Islamic State militant network is believed to be dead after being targeted by a US military raid in north-west Syria, Dailymail reports Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the so-called caliphate, is […]

The Democratic-led impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump resumes with testimony from a senior State Department official on Saturday, a day after a judge buoyed the probe by dismissing a central Republican objection. Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, is due to meet with the House of Representatives […]

Russian national Maria Butina, who was jailed in the United States in April after admitting to working as a Russian agent, arrived in Moscow on Saturday, greeted by her father and Russian journalists who handed her flowers. “Russians never surrender,” an emotional Butina told reporters at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, flanked by her father and the […]

North Korea says it’s running out of patience with the United States over what it described as hostile policies and unilateral disarmament demands. It’s warning that a close personal relationship between their leaders alone wouldn’t be enough to prevent nuclear diplomacy from derailing. Senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol in a statement on Sunday […]

Turkey is demanding that U.S. officials call off plans to meet with Mazloum Abdi, the Kurdish commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces which fought alongside American troops to dislodge Islamic State insurgents from northeastern Syria. “Our allies’ dialogue with a terrorist wanted with a red notice is unacceptable,” Turkish foreign minister Mevut Cavusoglu told Turkey’s state-run […]