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BERLIN (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron used “drastic words” when he described NATO as experiencing a “brain death”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, saying that was not her view. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also rej…

Image copyrightReuters President Emmanuel Macron of France has described Nato as "brain" dead, stressing what he sees as waning commitment to the transatlantic alliance by its main guarantor, the US. Interviewed by the Economist, he cited the US failure to …

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s foreign ministry accused NATO on Friday of fuelling tensions over Ukraine and said the alliance’s military support for the country was creating divisions inside it, the TASS news agency reported. On Thursday, NATO Secretary Gener…

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is planning to pull back troops from the eastern region of Luhansk as NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg visits the country. As Stoltenberg called on Russia to reduce tensions in the area, Zelenskyy said he was ma…

KIEV/BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Thursday issued a joint statement committing to uphold minority rights in Ukraine, a step welcomed by the Hungarian authorities who had threatened to block Kiev’s NATO membership …

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary has vetoed a joint NATO declaration on Ukraine as it did not contain a reference to its neighbor’s obligation to fully respect the rights of ethnic Hungarians living there, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednes…

ANKARA/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian army troops clashed with Turkish forces near the border town of Ras al Ain on Wednesday, Syrian state media reported, as Ankara said it reserved the right to launch another cross-border offensive against Kurdish YPG militia. …

Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar did not vote in favor of a bipartisan resolution recognizing the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as a genocide. The firebrand Minnesota Democrat, who voted "present," told CNN in a statement that she voted that way becau…

(Adds Turkish reaction, comments from lawmakers) By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to recognize the mass killings of Armenians a century ago as a genocide, a symbolic but hi…

Ahmad Qermi, a Syrian refugee, at his house in Sanliurfa, Turkey. Andrea DiCenzo/The Globe and Mail Ahmad Qermi lost his home to the Islamic State led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He and his wife and two young children havent been back since IS captured their …