By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Fugitive national security contractor Edward Snowden has filed the paperwork to extend his refuge in Russia as the July 31 expiration of his asylum grant approaches, his lawyer ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Ukraine’s new defense minister said Tuesday that peace talks will occur only after the pro-Russia rebels holed up in the eastern cities of Donetsk and Luhansk completely disarm. ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times A group of 32 Turkish truck drivers kidnapped three weeks ago by Islamic militants in northern Iraq have been released and are en route home, Turkish Foreign Minister ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Ukrainian government troops have launched a broad offensive against pro-Russia separatists, attacking more than 100 rebel positions, sweeping the gunmen from three villages and spurring an evacuation of ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Ukrainian government forces targeted pro-Russia militants with artillery and airstrikes Tuesday after President Petro Poroshenko said he wouldn’t renew a cease-fire that was repeatedly violated during its 10 ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Four monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe who were taken hostage by pro-Russia militants in eastern Ukraine more than a month ago were freed ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times With a repeatedly violated weeklong cease-fire nearly over, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday called on Russia to make genuine efforts to stop the fighting between separatists and ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Russia has sent thousands of additional troops to its border with Ukraine following the Kiev leadership’s announcement that it will sign an economic association pact with the European ...
By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times A Russian television journalist was killed Tuesday in a Ukrainian military attack on a rebel roadblock near the eastern city of Luhansk, stirring accusations by the Russian government and ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday ordered government security agencies to help civilians escape separatist fighting and relocate to safety, his office announced. The order to create civilian ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry reported progress Monday after a second day of talks with a Moscow envoy aimed at ending the fighting between government forces and pro-Russia separatists in the ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa, who is set to take over the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, has a decades-long legacy of corruption, military ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times At least five pro-Russia separatists were killed Monday in a failed attack on a Ukrainian border guards base, the second large-scale operation in a week by insurgents apparently ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times KIEV, Ukraine — Rebels in the embattled eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk shot down a military helicopter on Thursday, killing at least a dozen Ukrainian soldiers, as heavy ...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times KIEV, Ukraine — Petro Poroshenko has yet to be declared winner of Ukraine’s presidential election, but the challenges facing the presumed new leader were on dauntingly full display Monday. ...