Tag: Russia
US threatens Egypt with sanctions over possible Russian arms deal
The United States has threatened Egypt with sanctions were the latter to acquire Russian warplanes.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told Egyptian Defense Minister Mohamed Zaki in...
Jerusalem hosts cornerstone ceremony for monument to heroes of Leningrad Seige
The cornerstone of a monument commemorating the World War II Siege of Leningrad was laid in a ceremony in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
The Memorial Candle Monument is dedicated to the estimated 600,000 to 1.5 million...
Israel’s High Court stays extradition to US of suspected Russian hacker
Israel’s High Court of Justice on Sunday ordered a temporary postponement of the extradition to the United States of Russian IT specialist Aleksey Burkov, who the family of an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia...
Israel to extradite Russian hacker to US, ending hopes of prisoner exchange
Israeli Justice Minister Amir Ohana on Wednesday signed the extradition order of Russian hacker Aleksey Burkov, who is wanted in the United States on suspicion of cyber crimes.
Burkov’s extradition ends hopes of a prisoner...
Erdoğan, Putin reach ‘historic agreement’ on Syria ‘buffer zone’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Tuesday that Turkey and Russia had reached a “historic” agreement that would remove all Syrian Kurdish fighters from the Syria-Turkey border region. The announcement came following six...
Trump on the Kurds in Syria: ‘They’re no angels’
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria even as criticism points to the United States having betrayed its Kurdish allies in the region.
In talking about...
Netanyahu to request official pardon for Na’ama Issachar
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to pardon 26-year-old Israeli-American Na’ama Issachar, the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed on Tuesday.
A day prior, President Reuven Rivlin sent Putin a letter, in...
As Moscow waits for Israeli electoral outcome, the future of Syria looms over relations
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Sochi in Russia last month to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the event turned into a political football back in Israel.
Seizing on the fact that...
Report: Israel attacked Iranian targets in Iraq with US and Russia permission
Israel bombed Iranian weapons warehouses in Iraq three times in recent weeks after reaching an understanding with the United States and Russia, the London-based pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Wednesday.
Western diplomatic sources told the newspaper...
Turkey receives S-400 missile defense system in defiance of US warnings
Turkey began to receive the S-400 air-defense missile-defense system on Friday despite U.S. warnings not to do so.
Materials arrived at the Murted Air Base, announced the Turkish Defense Ministry.
A second shipment of equipment is...