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By Lee Min-hyung A discussion about the renewal of the highly-controversial defense cost sharing agreement between South Korea and the United States is about to begin amid Washington’s repeated signals the U.S. plans to shift more of the cost burden onto Seoul. On Tuesday, Timothy Betts, acting U.S. deputy assistant secretary who led the country’s […]

File photo Qatar plans to build a new seaport at Somalia’s Hobyo, a potentially strategic investment in an area of East Africa fiercely contested by Gulf rivals. Hobyo, in the central region of Mudug, is an important Somali port owing to its proximity to the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, which is one of the most important sea […]

August 20, 2019 (KHARTOUM) – The Leadership Council of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) and its nomination committee, in a meeting that ended on Tuesday morning, finally agreed on five nominees to represent them at the Sovereign Council. The meeting which started at 01:00 PM on Monday witnessed a heated debate between the […]

Smoke billows above buildings during a reported air attack by pro-regime forces on Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s Idlib province on Monday [Omar Haj Kadour/AFP] Syrian opposition fighters have withdrawn from a key town in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province, northwest of the country, local activists and a war monitor have said. “Khan Shaikhoun has become completely […]

Conventional ground-launched cruise missile test, San Nicolas Island, California, August 18, 2019 ©  US Department of Defense/Scott Howe The US military has tested a ground-launched cruise missile with a range of over 500km, the Pentagon confirmed. Such weapons were banned under the INF arms control treaty, which the US exited this month. The flight test of a “conventionally […]

This handout photograph released by the University of Grenoble-Alpes on August 19, 2019, shows an artist’s view of the system beta Pictoris. (AFP Photo) A second planet has been discovered circling Beta Pictoris, a fledgling star in our own galaxy offering astronomers a rare glimpse of a planetary system in the making, according to a […]

The Arabic-language al-Watan newspaper reported that the Russian infantry units have been deployed in Bukamal region in Eastern Deir Ezzur and near Iraqi border for the first time. The newspaper quoted opposition sources as saying that the Russian troops have been stationed in the town of al-Jala along the Western bank of Euphrates River and […]

President Donald Trump’s annoyance with an unfavorable poll led him to wrongly assert that he had control over the 2020 presidential debates. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images   President Donald Trump on Sunday slammed his preferred news network over recent unfavorable poll results, saying: “There’s something going on at Fox [News], I’ll tell you right now. […]

© Global Look Press / ZB / Patrick Pleul Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has labeled the idea of selling Greenland to the US as “absurd,” after President Donald Trump said Washington may look into purchasing the icy island. The suggestion of selling off Greenland, a Danish dependency, will not on the table any time […]

Afghan men comfort each other as they mourn during the funeral of their relatives after a suicide bomb blast at a wedding in Kabul [Omar Sobhani/Reuters] Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has promised to eliminate all safe havens of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) as the country marks a subdued centennial […]