Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on January 21, 2015, holds up a fragment of a bus in which 13 civilians were allegedly killed in a rocket attack by pro-Russia forces last week. Ukrainian president has accused Moscow of backing pro-Russia forces in the east of the country with thousands of troops. Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that more than 9,000 troops have been sent by Russia to support... 

Ukrainian army tanks in the Donetsk village of Peski. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has warned of a serious deterioration in security in Ukraine’s restive eastern regions amid Kiev’s latest offensive against pro-Russian forces there. “What our monitors have been reporting is a serious deterioration of the security situation in the past few days with an increase... 

A majority of US senators submit to Israel’s demands to please the Israel lobby and do not represent the interests of the United States, an American scholar says. “It’s really embarrassing that so many American senators are willing to carry water for Israel,” said James Henry Fetzer, who is also an editor at Veterans Today and a retired professor in Madison, Wisconsin. “They ought to simply... 

Ukrainian troops have launched a massive assault on militia-held areas Sunday morning after an order from Kiev, a presidential aide said. The self-proclaimed Donetsk republic’s leader accused Kiev of trying to restart the war. The order to launch the offensive was issued early approximately at 6:00 am, according to Yury Biryukov, an aide to President Petro Poroshenko. “Today we will show HOW good... 

Once handling some five million passengers annually, Donetsk airport is now lying in ruins. Ukraine’s government forces have shelled several cities in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic over 30 times, pro-Russia sources say. The Donetsk news agency quoted the sources as saying that the attacks occurred early Saturday in populated areas on the outskirts of Donetsk, Gorlovka and... 

Rabbi said recent attacks “have revealed the urgent need to stop talking and start acting”. A prominent Jewish organization in Europe is petitioning the European Union to allow members of the Jewish community to carry guns “for the essential protection of their communities,” according to the Washington Free Beacon. The European Jewish Association is pressing for new legislation that... 

Satellite image showing the extent of damage in Doron Baga taken on 7 Jan 2015, following an attack by Boko Haram.   The scale of last week’s attack on the Nigerian towns of Baga and Doron Baga by Boko Haram militants has been shown graphically in before-and-after satellite images revealed by Amnesty International on Thursday. Satellite images, taken on January 2 and January 7, respectively,... 

Vladimir Putin has been silent lately. But if anyone thought he had been shamed into defeat or marginalized, then think again. In the last few hours Russia has announced two key strategic decisions that show they are not going to stand idly by while their economy and way of life are destroyed by Western forces. First, presumably in response to stiff sanctions leveled by the United States and the European... 

About 250 people marched in Washington with a goal of stopping future deportations, on Oct. 14, 2013. Republican lawmakers in the US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to block President Barack Obama’s executive immigration initiatives, setting up a fresh clash between the GOP dominated Congress and the White House. US representatives voted 236 to 191 to pass a $40 billion funding bill... 

US House Speaker John Boehner has warned President Barack Obama over his actions on immigration policies in the country. At a Tuesday meeting of dozens of congressional leaders, Boehner said that the House would make efforts to stop the actions. He “made clear” that a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill would “include amendments to stop the president’s unilateral actions... 

Madrid wants to see changes made to the treaty governing the visa-free Schengen area, which would allow Spain to introduce border controls to stem the tide of Islamic militants returning from the Middle East, the country’s interior minister has said. “We are going to back border controls and it is possible that as a consequence it will be necessary to modify the Schengen treaty,” Interior... 

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic votes in Croatia’s presidential run-off on January 11, 2015. Croatia’s opposition conservative Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has won the country’s presidential run-off following a tight competition with incumbent President Ivo Josipovic, partial results show. Grabar-Kitarovic, a former foreign minister and an ex-assistant secretary general of NATO, garnered 50.44 percent of... 

The deadly events that unfolded in France over the last week may be the first in a wave of Muslim attacks to strike Europe, a German daily reports, citing NSA intercepts of communications between Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) leaders. Paris was marked as the first in a series of European cities to be attacked, including Rome, the report in the German tabloid Bild read. However, the article... 

A new lawsuit has revealed more details about former President Bill Clinton’s friendship with a fundraiser who was later jailed for having sex with an underage girl, including the fact that Clinton’s name was listed in the man’s phone book 21 times. In the civil lawsuit complaint, Virginia Roberts alleges that she was used as a sex slave by Jewish billionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein.... 

A view of a house razed during a Ukrainian army strike in Stanitsa Luganskaya village, east Ukraine. Amnesty International has warned that the violence-scarred eastern Ukraine is sliding toward a humanitarian disaster as local residents struggle to get food as well as medicine. Denis Krivosheev, deputy director of Europe and Central Asia at Amnesty International, said on Thursday that the people in...