The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met on Wednesday with members of the World Peace Council and the World Federation of Democratic Youth who are taking part in the meetings of the World Peace Council’s Executive Committee currently held in Damascus. At the beginning of the meeting, President al-Assad thanked the ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Ukraine Thursday to discuss the peace process in the east of the country as well as the controversial expansion of a Russian gas pipeline. The one-day visit is her first since the signing of the Minsk accord in early 2015, which has so far ...