Category: FOREIGN NEWS

Israel says it bombed Syrian army headquarters in Damascus, after warning the Islamist-led government to leave the Druze minority alone in its Sweida heartland, where a monitor says sectarian clashes have killed nearly 250 people.Syrian government forces entered the majority-Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday with the stated aim of overseeing a ceasefire agreed with Druze community leaders after clashes with local Bedouin tribes left more than 100 people dead.However, witnesses on Wednesday reported that the government forces joined with...

Italy has condemned the attack on Russian opposition figure Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, saying it proved Russia’s persecution of Moscow’s critics.Presidency, told reporters that something really serious happened with the death of Navalny and also the attack on his closest collaborator,” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, whose country holds this year’s rotating G7.“It is proof that Russia continues to persecute those who oppose the regime and this cannot but deserve our condemnation.”Lithuania said that...

The leader of the US Senate has called for the Israeli government to hold new elections in a speech suggesting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu risked making the US ally a pariah.According to the highest-ranking Jewish politician in the United States,Chuck Schumer, new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decision-making process about the future of Israel, at a time when so many Israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their...