The Petersburg Post

Sunday, Dec 14th, 2025 - Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A gunman who ambushed U.S. and Syrian soldiers, killing two American troops and a civilian interpreter near Palmyra Saturday, is thought to have been an Islamic State infiltrator working as part of a local security detail, according to multiple reports. The two American troops killed were U.S. National Guard soldiers from Iowa, according to a statement from Gov. Kim Reynolds . Syria strongly ...

Sunday, Dec 14th, 2025 - VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski arrived for an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, direct from a dentist appointment. The 63-year-old veteran human rights advocate — looking pale, visibly tired and emaciated — was experiencing a return to daily life after more than four years behind bars in Belarus. He was suddenly ...

Sunday, Dec 14th, 2025 - JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas on Sunday confirmed the death of a top commander in Gaza, a day after Israel said it had killed Raed Saad in a strike outside Gaza City. The Hamas statement described Saad as the commander of its military manufacturing unit. Israel had described him as an architect of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war in Gaza, and asserted that he had been "engaged in rebuilding the ...

Sunday, Dec 14th, 2025 - BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. envoys arrived in Berlin on Sunday for another round of talks intended to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine as Moscow and Kyiv stuck to their sharply opposite views of a prospective peace deal. Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian, U.S. and European officials will hold a series of meetings in Berlin. He said he will meet personally with U.S. ...

Sunday, Dec 14th, 2025 - HONG KONG — A Hong Kong court is set to rule in the landmark national security trial of Jimmy Lai , a pro-democracy activist and media mogul whose case has drawn international scrutiny and become a symbol of Beijing's crackdown on dissent in the Chinese territory. Lai, one of the most prominent critics of China's ruling Communist Party, was arrested in 2020 shortly after Beijing imposed a sweeping in response ...