Ukraine will only hold elections once it has security guarantees in place and a ceasefire with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, pushing back at a report his administration was under US pressure to hold fresh ballots.
US forces have withdrawn to Jordan from Syria’s Al-Tanf base, where they had been deployed as part of the international coalition against ISIS, two Syrian military sources said on Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump told Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House that talks with Iran must continue, rebuffing the Israeli prime minister’s push for a tougher stance against Tehran.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Wednesday vowed to drive a “dramatic increase” in Venezuela’s oil output after talks with the country’s acting leader, who backed a “productive long-term partnership” with Washington.
NATO on Wednesday said it had launched a new mission to bolster security in the Arctic, in a move to assuage US President Donald Trump after he backed off claims on Greenland.
Russia said Wednesday it would abide by limits on its nuclear weapons set out in a lapsed arms control treaty with the United States, so long as Washington did the same.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday that his country is ready for “any verification” of its nuclear program and insisted Tehran is not seeking an atomic weapon.
The expiration of the New START treaty constitutes the latest evidence of the erosion of nuclear arms control regimes. However, the emergence of a new era marked by nuclear multipolarity and the advent of influential strategic technologies may contribute to strengthening strategic stability.
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog said Wednesday he hoped talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump in Washington later in the day would help fight Iran’s “empire of evil.”
Some residents of the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday chanted slogans against the Islamic Republic and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the eve of the most significant annual commemoration of the 1979 Islamic revolution, according to footage posted on social media.
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