According to the Lebanese Al-Manar TV network, citing field sources, the United States has set up a new military base in Syria’s Al-Hasakah province, while France has sent new military convoys to the site.
Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a deal with the United Nations Refugee Agency to relocate some 16,000 African migrants to European countries.
Amid the ongoing investigation into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, which has so far yielded no significant results, a number of US states have decided to be ahead of the game prior to the upcoming congressional midterm elections.
YEREVAN (Sputnik) - Armenia's acting Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan on Wednesday suggested holding a snap parliamentary election, following the voluntary resignation of his predecessor and ex-president, Serzh Sargsyan, and failure of negotiations with the opposition.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israel’s policy of demolishing schools in the West Bank and denying the Palestinians building permits for new ones violates local residents’ right to education and pressures Palestinians to leave the Israeli-controlled areas, which may be ultimately qualified as an international crime, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Despite the deteriorating situation in the African nation of Mali, the Swedish contingent of about 250 soldiers, which is part of a major UN mission and was intended to continue until at least 2022, will be closed down next year due to insufficient funding. The initiative's annual cost has been estimated at about $105 million.
After unqualified reports emerged from Douma that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against its own people, Western mainstream media once again said that Bashar Assad was guilty of war crimes. Any alternative accounts were simply dismissed as 'propaganda. Sputnik spoke to international relations expert Xavier Moreau for more.
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