US President Barack Obama allowed US sanctions against Iran to be renewed on Thursday, but in a surprise move declined to actually sign the legislation that brings the sanctions into force. “The extension of the Iran Sanctions Act is becoming law without the president’s signature,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest ...
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 ...
