Some two dozen member countries joined the first meeting of the Board of Peace in Washington today with more than $16 billion in financial pledges.
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The end of Rojava is bad news for the United States

American support for Syria’s subjugation of “Rojava”—the autonomous Kurdish-led administration in its northeast—is regarded by many of its supporters as a betrayal.
The United States is planning to withdraw all of its 1,000 troops from Syria over the next two months, according to US media reports.Washington will end ...
Nations are stepping up efforts to curb drug smuggling ...
MOSCOW, Feb 19 (Bernama-Sputnik/RIA Novosti) -- Russia is convinced that without a Palestinian state, there will be no peace or stability in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov ...
Russia warns that military action could spark a wider regional crisis and undermine fragile diplomatic gains, while confirming ongoing talks with Syria’s new leadership to preserve its key military ...