President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar a-Abadi have agreed to send around 600 extra US troops to Iraq to help in the upcoming Mosul offensive, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday. The leaders have “approved, and they’ve both directed that the United States increase its contingent of forces ...
Moscow on Wednesday described as “biased” and “politically motivated” the Dutch-led inquiry into the downing of Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, which concluded the plane was shot down by a missile brought from Russian territory. “Russia is disappointed that the situation around the investigation of the Boeing catastrophe is not ...
