U.S. prosecutors aren’t done with Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire who figured prominently in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s case against Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. In what could be an offshoot of Mueller’s work, federal authorities MORE
Fighting continued Friday morning in a northeast Syrian border town at the center of the fight between Turkey and Kurdish forces, despite a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that went into effect overnight. Shelling and gunfire could be MORE
UN chemical weapons inspectors have announced they are gathering information following accusations that burning white phosphorus was used by Turkish forces against children in Syria earlier this week. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) MORE
We live in perplexing times when the U.S. president saw “very fine people” among neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and we have a television network that traffics in racism and conspiracy theories. Our world MORE
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday he had reached a deal with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for a ceasefire in northern Syria to end an eight-day-old Turkish offensive against Kurdish-led forces. The deal MORE
A senior US delegation faces the mammoth task of pressuring Turkey to halt its offensive in north-east Syria or face sanctions, hours after Donald Trump said his country had no stake in defending Kurdish fighters MORE
US troops bombed their own anti-ISIS headquarters as Turkey-backed fighters closed in during Trump’s hasty retreat Sources: Business Insider: WSJ: The US military destroyed its own anti-ISIS headquarters in Syria, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, to MORE
In a joint press conference with Italian president Sergio Mattarella, Trump slammed the Kurds who helped the US stop the ISIS Caliphate by claiming they “are not angles.” “We are not a policing agent. It MORE
A family who spent nine years on a farm “waiting for the end of time” have been discovered by police in the Netherlands after one of them turned up at a local pub, reports say. MORE
Turkey’s president Erdogan told Sky News he will only meet with Trump and not Pence nor Pompeo who will travel to Ankara Wednesday to discuss a ceasefire in northeast Syria. “They say ‘declare a ceasefire’. MORE
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s military operation in Syria could end after Kurdish fighters leave a strip of territory along its border, laying out his key condition for ending an offensive that has drawn MORE
Chinese President Xi Jinping cautioned over the weekend that any effort to split with China will result in “bodies smashed and bones ground to powder” amid ongoing unrest in Hong Kong. The Chinese leader made the warning MORE
Protestors in Hong Kong burned LeBron James jerseys just one day after his comments on the NBA’s controversey with China. The Associated Press captured video of protestors taking shots at a photo of James taped above MORE
Russian defense Ministry issued a statement claiming the Russian military police will now patrol “along the line of contact between the Syrian Arab Republic and Turkey.” The statement said the Russian military was also “interacting” with Turkey’s MORE
US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion Source: An estimated 50 nuclear bombs stored at a US airbase in Turkey have become potential bargaining chips in the tense relationship between Washington and Ankara MORE
In a sense, Watch Over My Parents was created by accident. The service began in 2013, after a heat wave, when a number of overburdened city halls asked their local post offices to check on MORE
Trump took to Twitter this morning to announce bigly sanctions against his BFF Erdogan. He also suggested the Kurds have intentionally released ISIS prisoners in an attempt to get United States’ support. Of course, he MORE
Kurdish-led forces in north-eastern Syria have struck a deal with Russia and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an effort to repel Turkey’s march into the country—as upwards of 750 Islamic State militants (ISIS) escaped from detention centers MORE
Hundreds of relatives of Islamic State fighters fled a Kurdish-run detention camp on Sunday morning after Turkish airstrikes hit the surrounding area, deepening the crisis prompted by the Turkish-led invasion of northern Syria. The escapes came MORE
The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces told a senior US diplomat, “You are leaving us to be slaughtered,” demanding to know whether the US is going to do anything to protect Syrian Kurds as Turkey MORE
Ras al-Ain (Syria) (AFP) – Ankara stepped up its assault on Kurdish-held border towns in northeastern Syria on Saturday, defying mounting threats of international sanctions, even from Washington. Buoyed by a night of steady advances MORE
“I am the happiest man,” Kipchoge said after the unofficial two-hour marathon, adding that he hopes to have inspired many that “no human is limited.”Kipchoge was on target to break the record during the first half of Vienna’s MORE
Turkish ground forces seized at least one village from Kurdish fighters in northern Syria as they pressed ahead with their assault Thursday, launching airstrikes and unleashing artillery shelling on towns and villages the length of MORE
Speaking to reporters in the Roosevelt room, Trump defended his decision to pull US troops out of Syria enabling Turkey to slaughter the Kurds. Quoting some wing nut article that Trump ‘read’ in Towhnhall, he MORE
Turkish troops have begun an offensive in northern Syria, which could bring them into direct conflict with Kurdish-led forces allied to the United States. The move was announced by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey MORE