US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the battle to oust the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group from Iraq’s second largest city will be “tough” but ultimately successful. “There will be advances and there will be setbacks,” he said at a joint press conference ...
The Kremlin said Wednesday it does not expect any breakthrough in resolving the conflict in Ukraine at international talks set to start in Berlin. “We do not expect any breakthroughs,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters hours before President Vladimir Putin was scheduled to meet the leaders of France, Germany ...