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The Iran-backed Hezbollah group postponed an appointment with President Joseph Aoun on Monday at which it was due to ...

Senior Hezbollah lawmaker Mohammed Raad said on Monday the Iran-backed group's opponents were seeking its fragmentation and ...

This pool photograph distributed by Russia's state agency Sputnik shows Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov moderating Russian President Vladimir Putin's year-end press conference at Gostiny Dvor ...

A US official said the sanctions could cost Russia billions of dollars. Peskov said modern experience had shown it was impossible to cut natural supply routes for energy. "You block something in ...

I wasn't Sausage, Bush, Firework or Tattoo but I love your commitment and it makes me howl laughing. You lot are brilliant." Tattoo and Bush are among the characters on the new series of the ...

And on yesterday's announcement of a further $500m in US aid to Ukraine, Peskov said: "We see that contradictions are growing there and we see that many disagreements are emerging on the prospects ...

We have a lot of projects and a lot of promising plans, and all of them will be on the agenda of Mr. Touadera's negotiations with President Putin," Peskov told journalists on Wednesday. Putin's ...

A State Department spokesperson confirmed to Newsweek that "there are unaccounted-for U.S. citizens" following Hamas' attack on Israel over the weekend. Pence said Hamas' attack on Israel is "what ...