Eurasia

Azerbaijan’s Defence Minister, Colonel-General Zakir Hasanov received the Ambassador of Turkey to Azerbaijan, Ismail Alper Coskun, the Defence Ministry said on Nov. 15.

The European Union and the United States of America ministerial meeting on justice and home affairs will take place in Washington on Monday. The EU and US delegations are going to exchange information on the recent

A Syrian government delegation will meet officials in Moscow Monday to discuss preparations for an international peace conference that Russia, the United States and the United Nations are trying to convene.

French forces have “neutralised” several Al-Qaeda members in Mali’s troubled north, where the group claimed responsibility for the execution of two French journalists, the chief of defence staff in Paris said Thursday.

Russia is offering to sell Egypt modern helicopters and air defence systems in a landmark deal reportedly worth $2 billion that would mark a revival of large-scale military cooperation, a Russian official said Friday.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a two-day visit to Russia next week to discuss the ongoing crisis in Syria. The Turkish prime minister is set to attend the fourth meeting of the High Level Cooperation

Three people were killed and 22 others wounded on Thursday in two explosions and a mortar attack against an old district of Syria’s capital of Damascus. The attacks targeted the al-Kallaseh neighborhood in the old quarter of Damascus.

There is no need for Congress to add new sanctions on Iran if the United States is serious about pursuing diplomatic solution to Tehran’s disputed nuclear program, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday.

The long-delayed conference aimed at ending Syria’s 32-month conflict will be held in Geneva on December 12, a Syrian government daily reported on Thursday, citing diplomatic sources in Paris. The Al-Watan newspaper said that US Secretary of State John Kerry had told his French counterpart Laurent Fabius that UN Secretary General Ban

The trial before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding Croatia’s charges and Serbia’s counter charges of genocide is set to start on March 3, 2014. All the witnesses will take to the stand over the next month and the two sides will also present their