Afghan forces were conducting clearing operations in Kunduz early Tuesday, warning that Taliban militants were hiding in civilian homes after an hours-long assault on the city repelled with the help of NATO air support. Helicopters hovered over the strategic provincial capital and special forces were stationed in the main square, …
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Oil prices finished higher in New York on Friday, two days after producing countries reached the consensus needed for a production cut. However prices edged lower in London, failing to break the threshold of $50 a barrel. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, a barrel of West Texas Intermediate for …
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Russia has a “special responsibility to calm violence and give a political process a chance” in Syria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. “The latest offensive by the Syrian regime against Aleppo — supported by Russia — has made the suffering of the …
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The US economy grew faster than originally thought in the second quarter of this year, with Commerce Department figures released Thursday showing a 1.4 percent annual rate. The Commerce Department’s previous second-quarter GDP estimate had been a gloomier 1.1 percent. Thursday’s figures however surpassed an analyst consensus, which had called …
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by Abhaya SRIVASTAVA with Masroor GILANI in Islamabad Indian commandos carried out a series of lightning strikes Thursday along the de facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir, provoking furious charges of “naked aggression” from its nuclear-armed neighbour. Amid anger in India over a recent deadly assault on one of its …
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by Jerome CARTILLIER The United States is ready to send around 600 troops to Iraq to train local forces for an upcoming offensive on the Islamic State group stronghold of Mosul, US officials told AFP on Wednesday. IS seized Mosul along with other areas in June 2014, but the country’s …
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