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French President Emmanuel Macron previously confirmed that France would maintain its military presence in the Middle East throughout 2019, since the envisaged withdrawal of US troops from Syria should not “deflect” Paris from its strategic objective to root out Daesh.…

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The United States keeps looking for pretexts to avoid a new meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Tuesday. “The reason that there were no…

A 52-year-old Iraqi geologist claims to have spearheaded the manufacture of chemical weapons for Daesh over a period of 15 months, The Washington Post reported. A few weeks into the seizure of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, by Daesh, Suleiman al-Afari, a…

In an annual speech, Norwegian Chief of Defence has lamented the dramatic loss of a frigate following the major NATO drill Trident Juncture and utilised the “Russian threat” as a pretext for a naval beef-up. Norwegian Chief of Defence Haakon Bruun-Hanssen…

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Vladimir Zherebenkov, attorney for espionage suspect Paul Whelan, told Sputnik on Monday that his client was found to be in possession of classified documents at the time he was detained last month in Moscow. “The prosecution is…

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The 2019 World Economic Forum (WEF) will be held in the Swiss city of Davos on January 22-25. The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is an international organisation for the development of public-private cooperation. The history…