US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that Victoria Nuland will step down in the coming weeks as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. What legacy will the leave?
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US Vice President Kamala Harris has met with Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz to affirm the United States' support for Israel in the war against Hamas but also expressed concern for the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, the White House said.
On Monday, German media reported that German military officials were speaking about plans to attack Russia on unencrypted video conversations and it is possible that unidentified numbers simply joined the conference call when it was intercepted.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Palestinian movement Hamas has expressed its readiness to reduce the number of Palestinian prisoners to be released as part of a deal with Israel if the Jewish state agrees to allow more Palestinian civilians to the northern Gaza Strip, the Axios news portal reported, citing an Israeli official and a source.
ANTALYA (Sputnik) - The Sudanese authorities have no general objections to the creation of a Russian navy base in the country, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Al-Sadiq Ali told Sputnik.
WASHINGTON, March 5 (Sputnik) - The US military is struggling to recruit new soldiers due to concerns about the United States’ policy of foreign intervention in recent decades, retired US Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor said in an interview with journalist Tucker Carlson.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - EU leaders have still not reached unanimity on sanctioning Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports to the European Union, although a legislative tool is being developed to help national governments restrict Russian LNG supplies independently, European Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said on Monday.
On Saturday, the United States conducted an airdrop of humanitarian aid in Gaza, dropping roughly 38,000 meals into a country that the World Health Organization said on Monday that at least 576,000 people are facing “catastrophic levels of food insecurity” including one in six children who are suffering from acute malnutrition.
On March 16, 2003, days before the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, then-Vice President Dick Cheney told US media that the American forces “would be greeted as liberators.” Nearly 21 years later, US troops are still being attacked in the country.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Biden administration is working to establish a maritime humanitarian assistance corridor for the Gaza Strip to augment the current aid mechanisms, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday.