Afghan suspect in DC shooting had worked with CIA

Rahmanullah Lakanwal reportedly helped guard US troops at Kabul airport after the Taliban takeover Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the suspect in the fatal shooting of National Guard troops in Washington, DC, had worked with the CIA during the US occupation of Afghanistan. On Wednesday, the Afghan national allegedly fired at close range…

Read More

Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom has passed away after being critically injured in an ambush-style attack US Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, one of the two West Virginia National Guard members critically wounded in Wednesday’s shooting in Washington, DC, has died of her injuries, President Donald Trump has announced. Trump said on…

Read More

Latvia’s top diplomat has said the bloc’s European members must send “a signal” to Moscow NATO’s European members are reportedly considering joint offensive cyber operations against Russia, Politico reported on Thursday, citing two senior EU government officials and three diplomats. Western governments are assessing cyber and other options in response…

Read More

Prosecutors have accused the pro-Ukraine entity of defending extremism The Russian Supreme Court has designated the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), run by associates of late opposition figure Alexey Navalny, as a terrorist group. The Russian authorities previously banned several organizations founded by Navalny’s team, whose publicly active members have fled the…

Read More

Beijing is reviving an uncomfortable truth: The global order belongs to the winners of World War II The foundations of any world order are rarely found in the institutions built to represent it. They lie instead in a simple, unchanging fact: Power belongs to those strong enough to impose rules…

Read More

While the American proposal could potentially lay the groundwork for a future agreement, multiple points need clarification, according to the Russian president Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated Moscow’s position after what his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, called an “information frenzy” over various possible frameworks for resolving the Ukraine conflict….

Read More

Clashing views within the “collective West” and in the US itself are stalling any settlement, the Russian president has said Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the key issue stalling the Ukraine peace process is the struggle of conflicting views within the West itself over how to bring the fighting…

Read More

Kiev must first withdraw its troops from the parts of Russian territory it claims as its own, he said A ceasefire could be declared only if Ukraine withdraws its troops from the parts of Russian territory it claims as its own, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. The president touched…

Read More

Someone who opposes Trump may have leaked confidential Ukraine-related call records, a former senior intelligence official told the paper The alleged leak of private conversations between Russian and American officials involved in Ukraine peace talks was likely carried out by someone inside US intelligence, The Guardian wrote on Wednesday, citing…

Read More