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Tripoli (AFP) - Forces backing Libya's unity government battled to push back an offensive by strongman Khalifa Haftar on Sunday as his troops approached the gates of Tripoli after air raids overnight. Haftar's self-proclaimed Libyan National Army, galvanised…

Washington (AFP) - A long-awaited US probe on Russian election meddling has divided Washington but on one point virtually all US policymakers are clear -- there will be no reconciliation with Moscow. The 400-page document by Special Counsel Robert Mueller la…

Turkey is "taking into account" NATO concerns over its Russian missile deal, the country's foreign minister said, in more conciliatory remarks over a purchase stoking tensions between Washington and Ankara. The two NATO allies have argued for months over Tur…

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) The comedian who is odds-on favorite in Ukraine's presidential election promised Thursday to hold a nationwide referendum on joining NATO only after building a national consensus on the issue. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a popular comic actor who…

By Frank Rich , a writer-at-large for New York Magazine Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images In the Labor Day weekend scramble set off by President Obama’s zero-hour about-face on Syria, the only visible politician in Washington who knew just what he wanted to say and said it was the…