The Russian and Syrian air forces halted strikes in Aleppo on Tuesday for a 48-hour humanitarian pause, Russia’s defense minister announced. The ceasefire comes ahead of schedule. The Russian military said earlier that it would halt airstrikes on Thursday, but on Tuesday Sergey Shoigu announced that the ceasefire would be ...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday he did not have “very high expectations” ahead of a Berlin summit called to discuss peace efforts in his country. “Let’s not have very high expectations on this meeting,” Poroshenko told a joint press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg in Oslo. “Am ...