Foreign Exchanges

Foreign Exchanges

World update: May 31 2019

Stories from Israel, North Korea, Mexico, and more

Derek Davison
Jun 01, 2019
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SYRIA

The Russian government made it clear on Friday that it’s up to Turkey to rein in rebel groups in northwestern Syria in order to put an end to the ongoing fighting there. Moscow’s statement on the fighting came after a Thursday evening phone call between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which…

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