Eurasia

Ukrainian troops and independence-seeking insurgents have started establishing a weapon-free buffer zone to separate the areas they control from each other, a government military spokesman said Monday. “A preparation for the withdrawal of heavy weapons is underway,” Andrei Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told a …

France early Monday said it welcomed the end of the stand-off in Afghanistan over the outcome of the Afghan Presidential election, which has been disputed between two protagonists for several months.

Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar was on Monday appointed the new chief of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in commander-level promotions announced in the country’s powerful Army. The announcement was made on Twitter by Major General Asim Bajwa, director-general of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).

The Cairo Criminal Court postponed on Saturday ousted president Mohamed Morsi’s espionage trial to 29 September, and called upon General Adel Azab of the Homeland Security department to testify in the coming hearing. The court ordered the medical examination of Khairat El-Shater, deputy of the group’s Supreme Guide, according to …

The United States is set to deliver 10 Apache helicopters to Egypt to support “counterterrorism efforts”, confirmed US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel in a phone call to Egyptian Minister of Defence Sedki Sobhi. Hagel contacted his Egyptian counterpart by telephone on Saturday to confirm the plans to deliver the military …

On the first day of the 2014 Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Syrian anti-Assad group called the “Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)”[1] announced that it would be establishing a caliphate[2], or Islamic State (IS, which also became the organization’s new name), on the territories it controls in …

PM Davutoglu to visit Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will pay his second official visit as Prime Minister to Azerbaijan. Davutoglu will leave for Baku tonight and start his contacts on Friday.

French President Francois Hollande on Thursday indicated that French airstrikes against ISIL extremists in support of Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces would take place in “a short time-frame” but would be limited to Iraqi territory. “Reconnaissance flights have already taken place as of Monday. Others took place today from our …

Turkish Minister of EU Affairs Volkan Bozkir announced Thursday the new European Union Strategy aiming to eliminate the obstacles on Turkey’s path to the EU membership by accelerating the dynamics of Turkey-EU

President Barack Obama reaffirmed Thursday the US commitment to helping Ukraine address its security and economic problems. In addition to supporting Ukraine through security and economic assistance, the United States will continue to help mobilize the international community toward a diplomatic solution to Russian aggression in Ukraine, he