The Petersburg Post

Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 - Two U.S. Army soldiers and a U.S. civilian who was serving as an interpreter were killed after shots were fired at U.S. and Syrian forces on a mission to a historic central town in Syria on Saturday, U.S. military officials said. President Trump said Sunday that there will be a "very serious retaliation" after the attack, which he attributed to the Islamic State. "This was an ISIS attack against the U.S., and ...

Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 - Nobel prize winner Ales Bialiatski and opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava among those freed after US talks with Alexander Lukashenko The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko , has freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel peace prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava, after the US lifted sanctions on Belarusian potash, a key export. The announcement came after two days of ...

Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 - If Saed is dead he would be most senior militant to be killed since October ceasefire, in attack on car that reportedly left four dead The senior Hamas commander Raed Saedhas been killed in a strike on a car in Gaza City, the Israeli military said on Saturday. The attack killed four people and wounded at least 25 others, according to Gaza health authorities. There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas or medics ...

Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 - Russia's central bank on Friday said it was suing the Belgium-based Euroclear financial group, which holds Moscow's frozen international reserves, as the EU moves closer to using the funds to support Ukraine. The European Commission is pushing to tap some 200 billion euros ($232 billion) of the Russian central bank's assets that the bloc immobilised after Moscow's 2022 assault on Ukraine, in order to provide Kyiv a ...