Cold War

West's 'Russiaphobia' worse than

MOSCOW - Muslimchronicle

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday said the West’s “unprecedented Russiaphobia” was worse than at the height of the Cold War. “This Russiaphobia is unprecedented. We never saw this during the Cold War,” Lavrov, fresh from a visit to New York on Thursday and Friday, said in an interview with the Russian daily Kommersant’s online edition. “Back then there were someRead more

Trump unveils details of ‘America First’ security strategy

Washington - Muslimchronicle

President Donald Trump declared a new national security strategy on Monday, stressing the "America first" message of his 2016 campaign and faulting previous US leaders for failing to measure up to it and look out for the nation's citizens. "Our leaders engaged in nation building abroad while they failed to build up and replenish our nation at home," he said,Read more

Stoltenberg: from NATO opponent to alliance chief

Brussels - Muslimchronicle

A staunch opponent of NATO as a young man, as head of the alliance Jens Stoltenberg has overseen its biggest military expansion since the Cold War and kept sustained pressure on allies to spend more on defence. The Norwegian, re-appointed as NATO's secretary general until 2020 on Tuesday, has sought to reassure its members alarmed on one side by theRead more

Secret files show US knew about Indonesia purges of 1960s

Indonesia - Muslimchronicle

The US government was fully aware of a bloody anti-communist purge by the Indonesian army in the 1960s, with one diplomat at the time describing the bloodletting as "widespread slaughter", recently declassified documents have revealed. The 39 US embassy documents cover the period from 1964-1968, at the peak of the Cold War, and uncover new details about one of theRead more

Mali wants US to reverse Chad travel ban

Bamako - Muslimchronicle

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, head of a group of five countries in Africa’s Sahel region, has asked the US to remove a travel ban on Chadian nationals, saying that a failure to do so could affect Chad’s security commitments. Security analysts expressed surprise when Chad, a key US security partner since the Cold War, was named last week alongsideRead more

Mali wants US to reverse Chad travel ban

Bamako - Muslimchronicle

Russia seeks ‘post-West’ order as US vows loyalty to allies

Munich - ArabToday

Russia on Saturday called for an end to what it said was an outdated world order dominated by the West after US vice president Mike Pence pledged Washington’s "unwavering" commitment to transatlantic allies in Nato. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov offered a diametrically opposed global vision, just hours after Mr Pence vowed to stand with Europe to rein in aRead more

Global arms trade highest since Cold War

Stockholm - AFP

Worldwide arms trade has risen to its highest level since the Cold War in the last five years, driven by a demand from the Middle East and Asia, a study said Monday. Between 2012-2016, arms imports in terms of volume by countries in Asia and Oceania accounted for 43 percent of global imports, a 7.7 rise compared to the previousRead more

US believes Russia deployed new missile in treaty violation

Washington - Arab Today

Russia has deployed a new cruise missile despite complaints by US officials that it violates an arms control treaty banning ground-based US and Russian intermediate-range missiles, a senior Trump administration official said on Tuesday. Russia had secretly deployed the ground-launched SSC-8 cruise missile that Moscow has been developing and testing for several years, despite US complaints that it violated sectionsRead more

Americans considering Russia a threat

New York - Arab Today

Americans are more concerned than they were before the 2016 US presidential campaign began about the potential threat Russia poses to the country, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday. The Jan. 9-12 survey found that 82 percent of American adults, including 84 percent of Democrats and 82 percent of Republicans, described Russia as a general “threat” toRead more