Christian Edwards

Jan 12, 2025 | wral.com | Sharon Braithwaite |Christian Edwards |Adam Pourahmadi

(CNN) — Iranian businessman Mohammad Abedini, who was detained in Italy at the request of the United States following a drone attack that killed three Americans, has been released. Abedini, 38, was arrested in Milan in December on a warrant issued by the US and charged in connection with a drone strike that killed three US Army soldiers and injured dozens more in Jordan last year.

Jan 10, 2025 | wral.com | Christian Edwards |Anna Chernova

(CNN) — In the capital of Transnistria, a self-declared microstate sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine, the festive New Year’s lights have gone dark ahead of schedule. This separatist sliver of Moldova will run out of energy in three weeks, the head of its Russia-backed government has said. Once proud, go-it-alone and richer than their neighbors in Moldova proper, Transnistrians are now burning wood to keep warm through hours-long blackouts as winter bites.

Jan 7, 2025 | wral.com | Maria Kostenko |Christian Edwards |Nick Walsh

(CNN) — Russia has claimed that its forces captured a battered but strategic town in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a day after Kyiv launched a counterattack in the Russian region of Kursk. After months of intense fighting, Russia’s Defense Ministry on Monday said its troops had “completely liberated” Kurakhove, a small industrial town that is a stepping stone to the key city of Pokrovsk and wider southern frontlines. Ukraine has not yet commented on the claim.

Dec 7, 2024 | erienewsnow.com | Eyad Kourdi |Christian Edwards |Nic Robertson |Avery Schmitz

By Eyad Kourdi, Christian Edwards, Nic Robertson and Avery Schmitz, CNN(CNN) — Syrian rebels have declared the capital Damascus “free” after entering the city to scant resistance from regime forces, while claiming President Bashar al-Assad has fled the capital, losing his decades-long grip on power. “We declare the city of Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad,” the Military Operations Command wrote in a post on Telegram on Sunday.

Nov 29, 2024 | wpsdlocal6.com | Eyad Kourdi |Mostafa Salem |Christian Edwards |Allegra Goodwin

(CNN) — Syrian armed rebels have entered Aleppo just three days into their surprise offensive, marking the first time they have set foot in the country’s second largest city since government forces recaptured the city in 2016. Rebel forces launched a surprise attack this week, sweeping through several villages outside the city and reigniting conflict that had been largely static for years.