True death toll is likely to be higher than figure announced by UN human rights official that includes victims of MH17 plane crash The number of people confirmed killed in theUkraineconflict has risen above 3,000 if the victims of the MH17 plane crash are included, a senior UN human rights official said on Monday. Ivan Simonovic, the UN assistant ...

[caption id="attachment_115311" align="alignright" width="213"] A Ukrainian serviceman sit ontop of an armoured personnel carrier during a patrol on the border of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions near town of Debaltseve, on September 5, 2014. Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels agreed on September 5 on a ceasefire aimed at halting nearly five months of war ...

Ukraines President Petro Poroshenko says hell order a ceasefire for government troops fighting self-defense forces in the southeast of country if the meeting of Ukrainian, Russian and OSCE envoys takes place in Belarus on Friday as planned. "At 14:00 local time (11:00GMT Friday), provided the [Minsk] meeting takes place, I will call on the General ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Ambassador to Baku Mohsen Pak Ayeen said regional peace and security cannot be materialized unless the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia is resolved. Pak Ayeen said Iran considers important the positive strategy of the Azeri Foreign Minister on the assistance of other countries in the solution of the ...