Ramzan Kadyrov, the 39-year-old strongman who has held the post of president of Russia's Chechen Republic for nine years, rang in the new year by lashing out at Chechen immigr...
http://www.voanews.com/content/russia-opposition-ponders-chechnyas-ramzan-kadyrov/3140533.html
Ravaged by civil war and Islamic State occupation, the battered western Syrian city of Homs is slowly rising from a crippled existence. Its uneasy renaissance is seen in the W...
http://www.voanews.com/content/crippled-by-war-syrian-city-of-homs-attemps-comeback/3140126.html
> Zenon33 wrote: > >> miltiades wrote:You were born in Australia, have visited Cyprus on >> a few occasions, have never interacted at length with t...
http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=44424&p=834141#p834141
Currently before the Israeli Knesset is a bill demanding greater transparency from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) about their sources of funding. The bill has generated...
russian open-source bloggers say they have documented more evidence that Russia is using cluster bombs in its air campaign supporting Syria’s embattled regime. The findings ...
http://article.wn.com/view/2016/01/07/Russian_Bloggers_Pinpoint_Alleged_Russian_ClusterBomb_Use_In/
[http://newcoldwar.org/donetsk-peoples-republic-preparing-prisoner-swap-with-ukraine-regime-darya-morozova/] From TASS russian News Agency , Jan 6, 2015 The Donetsk People�...
[http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23522/turkey-media-roundup-(2015-year-end-review)] [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and re...
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23522/turkey-media-roundup-(2015-year-end-review)
Each year Dispatches From The Edge [https://dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wordpress.com/] gives awards to individuals, companies, and governments that make following the news a da...
Should terrorists be deprived of their nationality? France’s Socialist government has made waves in the political establishment with a plan to write this idea, once the terr...
Yevgeny Vitishko, the man who has served arguably the longest sentence on record for supposedly spray-painting environmental graffiti on a […] The post Newly freed from pr...
Beirut (AFP) Dec 30, 2015 - Three months of russian air strikes in Syria have killed more than 2,300 people, a third of them civilians, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. ...
Washington (AFP) Dec 29, 2015 - The United States expressed concern on Tuesday at what it said was the heavy civilian toll of "indiscriminate" russian air strikes in Syria. ...
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_warns_Russian_strikes_in_Syria_killing_civilians_999.html