Joint Georgian-U.S. naval exercises began in the waters of Batumi port on Tuesday morning. The U.S. naval destroyer Bulkeley and two Georgian coast

Moscow foresees the international conference on Syria could start after September only, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said Monday. “It would hardly happen in September, because there will be other events, for instance, the UN General Assembly’s ministerial week,”  he said. 

he United States signalled on Monday that it was prepared to resume aid to Mali following a presidential election that paved the way for the return of a democratically elected government.