In the Trump administration’s latest effort to pressure Ukraine into accepting a 28-point peace plan, officials from the two countries will hold talks in Geneva.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in Washington, earlier this year. Ukraine’s European allies have criticized the 28-point proposal because it was initially negotiated between the United States and Russia, without Ukrainian involvement.
The administration said U.S. strikes on boats were lawful because President Trump had “determined” that the United States is in a formal armed conflict with drug cartels.
American forces are unlikely to be able to end a decades-long insurgency in Africa’s most populous country, despite President Trump’s order, officials said.
American forces are unlikely to be able to end a decades-long insurgency in Africa’s most populous country, despite President Trump’s order, officials said.
President Trump has yet to make a decision, but his advisers are pressing a range of objectives — from attacking drug cartels to seizing oil fields — to try to justify ousting Nicolás Maduro.