Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday pledged to boost ties with Donald Trump’s new administration, ahead of the US president-elect’s inauguration later in the day. “In the past, present and from now on, the Japan-US alliance has been the cornerstone of our diplomacy and security policy,” Abe said in ...
Syria’s Deir Ezzor has lost its only lifeline, as humanitarian supply deliveries were cut to the town due to the air drop zone being surrounded by ISIL terrorists, Jan Egeland, senior adviser to the UN special envoy for Syria, said on Thursday. “The ISIL terrorists have launched a major offensive, ...