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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Source: Kremlin.

Erdoğan, Putin reach ‘historic agreement’ on Syria ‘buffer zone’

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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...
U.S. President Donald Trump, June 20, 2019. Credit: White House Photo.

Trump on the Kurds in Syria: ‘They’re no angels’

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 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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin seen during a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, on May 9, 2018. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu to request official pardon for Na’ama Issachar

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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. Photo by Kobi Gideon.

As Moscow waits for Israeli electoral outcome, the future of Syria looms over relations

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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...
File photo: Israeli fighters fly during an airshow at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev Desert, Dec. 27, 2017. Photo by Flash90.

Report: Israel attacked Iranian targets in Iraq with US and Russia permission

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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...
S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft weapon-system transporter erector launcher. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Turkey receives S-400 missile defense system in defiance of US warnings

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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...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on April 4, 2019. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Netanyahu speaks with Putin as Iran breaks nuclear deal

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday concerning the ongoing situation regarding Syria, Iran and bilateral relations. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, Netanyahu took the opportunity to express...
Severe flooding caused by torrential rains has devastated the Irkutsk district of Siberia, Russia, near the border with Mongolia, July 3, 2019. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Chabad of Irkutsk mobilizes to help Siberia flood victims

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At least 15 people have been killed and thousands more remain homeless after torrential rains caused severe flooding in the Irkutsk district of Siberia, Russia, near the border with Mongolia. Rabbi Aharon Wagner, director of Chabad Lubavitch in Irkutsk, has...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. Credit: Wikipedia Commons.

Russia insists it will counter new US sanctions on Iran

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Russia is going to counter new sanctions put on Iran by the Trump administration, said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov to reporters on Monday. “Of course, we are discussing the U.S. policies of this kind....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the Secretary of the Russian National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 24, 2019. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Netanyahu meets with Russian National Security Council secretary, applauds cooperation

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian National Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev on Monday in Jerusalem as the former applauded security cooperation between Jerusalem and Moscow, including in countering the Iranian regional...