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“…. The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, together with the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus, as a result of a special operation, suppressed the illegal activities of Yuri Leonidovich Zyankovich, who has dual citizenship of the United States and the Republic of Belarus, and Alexander Iosifovich Feduta, a citizen of the Republic of Belarus, who were planning to carry out a military coup in Belarus according to a worked-out scenario of “color revolutions...

In February 2020, US President Donald Trump announced a peace deal with the Taliban, giving US forces 15 months to get out of Afghanistan. Nearly a year later, with the withdrawal nearly complete and only 2,500 US armed forces members remaining on Afghan soil, incoming President Joe Biden took the oath of inauguration and instantly began complaining that the May 1 deadline would be "hard to meet." The claim is silly on its face. The US military is great at moving people. Eight months after the ...

Antiwar.com Original In February 2020, US President Donald Trump announced a peace deal with the Taliban, giving US forces 15 months to get out of Afghanistan. Nearly a year later, with the withdrawal nearly complete and only 2,500 US armed forces members remaining on Afghan soil, incoming President Joe Biden took the oath of inauguration and instantly began complaining that the May 1 deadline would be “hard to meet.” The claim is silly on its face. The US military is great a...

Hearings set for Kovrig, Spavor; two Canadians detained in China since 2018 by Lucas Casaletto Last Updated Mar 17, 2021 at 8:33 pm EDT Experts say Ottawa shouldnt expect Beijing to do it any favours and free Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in return for medical co-operation on the coronavirus. Kovrig (left) and Spavor are shown in these 2018 images taken from video. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP The trials for the Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, jailed in China since 2018, will be held ...

Updated 4:13 PM ET, Fri March 12, 2021 Former US Marine Trevor Reed, charged with attacking police, stands inside a defendants cage during his verdict hearing at Moscows Golovinsky district court on July 30, 2020. (CNN)Trevor Reed, an American jailed in Russia, was transferred without notice to a different pre-detention center last week and his family has not heard from him since, according to the family spokesperson. "On March 2nd, Trevor was taken by two urbane, English speaking FSB agents...

The presence of the head and a consul of the Consulate General of Poland in Grodno in Belarus is inadvisable due to Poland's excessive, asymmetric, and destructive response to Belarus' legitimate and motivated decision to expel Consul of the Consulate General of Poland in Brest Jerzy Timofiejuk.

The diplomats have two days to leave Belarus.

Consul of the Consulate General of Poland in Brest Jerzy Timofiejuk participated in an unofficial event timed to the “day of the cursed soldiers”. The event took place in Brest on 28 February and involved representatives of non-governmental and youth organizations with ties to Poland.

Earlier this week, Canada hosted the virtual launch of an international human rights campaign against the arbitrary arrest and detention of innocent foreign…

Earlier this week, Canada hosted the virtual launch of an international human rights campaign against the arbitrary arrest and detention of innocent foreign…