The Petersburg Post

Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 - Ukraine and Russia will hold joint peace talks Friday with the United States, the first trilateral meeting since the nearly four years ago. The talks in Abu Dhabi follow marathon overnight discussions at the Kremlin between President Donald Trump's envoys and Vladimir Putin. Trump met earlier Thursday with Ukraine's . The two-day meeting in the United Arab Emirates signals a renewed effort to strike a deal after ...

Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 - Prime minister joins MPs, veterans and relatives in condemning US president's claim that troops avoided frontlines Keir Starmer has accused Donald Trump of "diminishing" the sacrifice of fallen British soldiers by claiming that those who fought in Afghanistan avoided the frontlines, as the US president faced a fierce backlash from all sides of the UK political spectrum as well as the families of veterans. Trump's ...

Friday, Jan 23rd, 2026 - – Syrian government forces took control Friday of a prison housing members of the Islamic State group in the north of , after hundreds of Kurdish fighters evacuated from the area as part of a recent deal. Syria's Interior Ministry said in a statement that the government's prisons authority is now in charge of al-Aqtan prison north of the northern city of Raqqa, and the files of the detainees are being ...