The Biden administration has determined a Russian effort is underway to create a pretext for its

Russia has denied having plans to attack its neighbor and in turn accused the Ukrainian leadership of hatching plans to use force to reclaim control of rebel-held territories.... Ukrainian authorities have denied it. Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula after the ouster of Ukraine’s Moscow-friendly leader and in 2014 also threw its weight behind a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine....

Mikhail Metzel/ Kremlin Pool via AP Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Jan.... Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki talks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Jan.... " The operatives are trained in urban warfare and in using explosives to carry out acts of sabotage against Russia's own proxy forces....

“ The government thinks that they won’t get any response regarding this matter from civil society as it thinks that we are a spent force now.... But we, the civil society, including journalists and lawyers, must come together to protest, ” she said.... We need to join forces, ” he said....

RAWALPINDI: A woman who had come from Lahore for a job was allegedly raped in the garrison city. The victim, a mother of two, reported to Race Course police that she and her family were in a department store when they were approached by a man distributing property advertisement pamphlets. She said she took a pamphlet and informed her husband about the advertisement who later contacted a man for seeking further details.... The man told her husband to come to Rawalpindi as he could arrange a job

WASHINGTON( Reuters)-The United States warned on Wednesday that Russia could use false claims about the conflict in Ukraine's Donbass region, including reports of mass graves and allegations of chemical weapons production, to justify an invasion of the former Soviet republic.U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Washington was yet to see signs Russia was de-escalating tensions on its border with Ukraine.... No video has yet emerged and officials have not provided evidence to back up

Moscow is also backing separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine fighting government forces, a simmering conflict that has claimed thousands of Ukrainian lives.In recent months, Russia has amassed some 100, 000 troops along its border with Ukraine and moved heavy weaponry in behind the manpower.... “ He wouldn’t threaten it if he wasn’t prepared to do something and to deliver.” Russia said, in the talks this week, that it did not intend to invade Ukraine.... But it also remained adamant in its posi

Join our Whatsapp channel A high-powered team led by Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday met the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation( OIC) officials to brief them on Pakistan’s stance in the wake of the recent conflict with India in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack. The high-level team — consisting of three former foreign ministers, two former foreign sec--retaries, two former ambassadors to the US, and a serving federal minister — arrived in New York on Sunday for consultations at the United

A formal U.S. rejection could provide Russia with a pretext to move ahead with the unspecified

" false-flag" operation to create a pretext to invade Ukraine, a US official said. The United States