President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that Russian special forces troops in Syria had found the remains of a U.S.-born Israeli soldier missing since 1982, allowing him to be finally buried.
Moscow has also attempted to play the role of mediator between Israel and Iran, seeking to douse the shadow war raging between them on Syrian soil. Israel, for its part, is determined to disrupt Iran’s plan to turn Syria into a war front against it.
Polish nationalists protested in New York City against a bill designed to help Holocaust survivors and their descendants reclaim lost property in Poland.
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative, based at Cornell University in New York, announced the young Ukrainian researcher will receive a Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum Early Career Award.
Israel reportedly conducted airstrikes against several targets in Aleppo on the night of 27 March 2019, targeting Iranian ammunition stores and its military logistics hub at Nayrab Air Base, co-located with Aleppo International Airport, which is closed to commercial aviation.
