No UN member State has officially recognised this country, despite functioning as a de facto government with all attributes of a sovereign nation including flag, currency, passport and effective ...

"As we're coming out of the pandemic, we have become the de facto flag carrier in the United ... to an airline that is or has been owned by the government, may be hyperbolic, the order does ...

Clad in military fatigues, Aliyev toured the building that formerly housed the de facto Armenian government in the town known to Armenians as Stepanakert and Azerbaijanis as Khankendi. As he entered ...

Elections may not be held in Syria for up to four years, the country’s de facto leader has said ... it remains unclear how the interim government will hand over power after previously saying ...

But what is a de facto referendum and is there any prospect of it settling the issue of independence once and for all? Why is this happening? The Scottish government was planning to hold an ...