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Encircled: Kremlin claims 5,000 Ukrainian troops trapped in Kharkiv breakthrough

November 21st, 2025 - 01:09 GMT

Osama Ali

Encircled: Kremlin claims 5,000 Ukrainian troops trapped in Kharkiv breakthrough

ALBAWABA - About 5,000 Ukrainian soldiers are stranded on the eastern bank of the Oskil River in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, according to a statement released by the Kremlin on Friday. Ukraine has refuted Russia's announcement last night that it had seized control of Kupiansk, a significant town in the area. During a visit to a command center of the "Zapad" group on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Princess Jalila’s’s father Sheikh Maktoum, (right) the ruler of Dubai, allegedly discussed arrangements to force her into an arranged marriage with Bin Salman in February 2019 (Dailymail)

March 6th, 2020 - 08:29 GMT

At London Court Princess Haya Claims Sheikh Mohammad Was Going to Force His Young Daughter to Marry Saudi Crown Prince

A family sits on a blanket near the yard of a small church where they spent the night after arriving last night near Skala Sykamnias on the Greek island of Lesbos on March 6, 2020. A group of 42 refugees and migrants managed to by pass coast guard patrols and landed on the shores of Lesbos in the evening of March 5. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP

March 6th, 2020 - 11:13 GMT

Tear Gas Fired From Turkey Towards Greek Border Guards

A train attendant wearing a facemask as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus assists a passenger at the Changsha railway station in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province on March 5, 2020. More than 95,000 people have been infected and over 3,200 have died worldwide from the new coronavirus, which by on March 5 had reached some 80 countries and territories. Noel CELIS / AFP

March 6th, 2020 - 08:54 GMT

WHO Urge World Governments For 'Call to Action' to Stop The Virus

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum wife Dubai’s Princess Haya (Twitter)

March 6th, 2020 - 08:45 GMT

UK Court Rules Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Organized The Kidnapping of His Children

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters as his wife Sara stands by, at the Likud party campaign headquarters in the coastal city of Tel Aviv early on March 3, 2020, after polls officially closed. Netanyahu claimed "a giant victory" in elections on March 3, boasting that his right-wing Likud party had defied "all expectations" in the country's third vote in less than a year. After exit polls by three networks forecast that Likud and its allies were on track to win 59 parliamentary seat

March 5th, 2020 - 01:59 GMT

Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is The Only World Leader to Congratulate PM Netanyahu on Poll Win

Knesset (AFP File Photo)

March 5th, 2020 - 01:53 GMT

Yisrael Beytenu Would Support Two Laws to Bar Netanyahu From Cabinet

European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with Britain Michel Barnier gives a press conference as he reports on the first round of EU-Britain negociations at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 5, 2020. François WALSCHAERTS / AFP

March 5th, 2020 - 01:47 GMT

Michel Barnier: UK Will Lose Out if it Walks Away From Post-Brexit Trade Talks EU

A wounded Syrian child sits at a makeshift clinic in the town of Maaret Misrin following Syrian government forces airstrikes on March 5, 2020 in the country's northwestern Idlib province. Russian air strikes killed at least 15 civilians including a child in the last major opposition bastion of Idlib in northwestern Syria, a Britain-based war monitor said. Aref TAMMAWI / AFP

March 5th, 2020 - 01:35 GMT

Syrian War Makes Idlib Province Uninhabitable for Civilians

South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a meeting with local business owners at Dongdaegu station in the southeastern city of Daegu on February 25, 2020. The novel coronavirus outbreak in South Korea is "very grave", President Moon Jae-in said on February 25 as he visited its epicentre and the country's total number of cases approached 1,000. YONHAP / AFP

March 5th, 2020 - 01:29 GMT

Coronavirus Tops S. Korea at 6,088 as Kim Jong Un Sends 'Comfort Message’ to Moon Jae-in

A migrant rests on the grass verge as they gather near the Tunca river waiting to resume their efforts to enter Europe near Pazarkule border gate in the city of Edirne, northwest Turkey on March 5, 2020. EU members on March 4, 2020 rejected what they said is Turkey's use of desperate migrants to pressure its neighbours -- and strongly backed Greece's border crackdown. The EU has scrambled to respond to the surge of migrants at the Greek border, where authorities say some 24,000 were stopped from entering be

March 5th, 2020 - 01:25 GMT

Turkey Slams EU Over Killing of Asylum-Seekers in Greece

Migrants climb a hill as they gather near the Tunca river in the city of Edirne, northwest Turkey on March 5, 2020 waiting to resume their efforts to enter Europe near Pazarkule border gate. EU members on March 4, 2020 rejected what they said is Turkey's use of desperate migrants to pressure its neighbours -- and strongly backed Greece's border crackdown. The EU has scrambled to respond to the surge of migrants at the Greek border, where authorities say some 24,000 were stopped from entering between Februar

March 5th, 2020 - 01:21 GMT

Athens Tell Refugees Greece is 'a Bridge to Europe'

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani gestures as he speaks during a gathering to assess the general security situation in the in Jalalabad Province, in Jalalabad on March 3, 2020. NOORULLAH SHIRZADA / AFP

March 5th, 2020 - 01:16 GMT

World Court Probes Possible War Crimes by US, Afghanistan and The Taliban