German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday they favour extending EU sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine conflict, ahead of a Brussels summit where the issue will be discussed. Merkel said that given grave shortcomings in the Ukraine peace process, which has been marred by regular ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said talks with the United States on Syria were at a dead end, and the advance by the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group to Palmyra may have been staged by the United States and its regional allies to allow ...
