The United States and its allies, primarily Turkey, appear to have "dealt a double blow" to President Bashar al-Assad and his government this week, RIA Novosti political analyst Andrei Veselov asserted. The two-pronged campaign entailed blaming Damascus for an alleged chemical attack and unilaterally redrawing Syria's borders.
It has become difficult for the corporate media and politicians to control the flows of information, Syrian President Bashar Assad told the Croatian Vecernji List newspaper in an interview published on Thursday.
Of late, Finland has activated deportation procedures of asylum seekers to the Middle East. This year alone, six flights to Baghdad and Kabul have been organized, as opposed to around 30 flights in 2016. The recent wave of expulsions, though, triggered bitter criticism from human rights activists and the deportees themselves.
The suspects in an overnight attack on police in southern Russia's Astrakhan attempted to gain access to weapons, the Russian Investigative Committee said Thursday, noting that ensuing searches uncovered a recording espousing extremist views.
Anti-terrorism and anti-extremism efforts cannot serve as pretexts toward increasing pressure on Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries, Secretary of the Russian Security Council (RSC) Nikolai Patrushev said Thursday.
China’s President Xi Jinping and President of Finland Sauli Niinisto said their countries would work to create a long-term future-oriented partnership, local media reported on Thursday.
Syria will be "deleted from the map" until terrorism in Syria is defeated, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Croatian Vecernji List newspaper in an interview published on Thursday.
Rhonda Miller from Canada was on her way to work when she saw a couple of wolves running full force on the side of a highway.
Estonian resident Arsen Mardaleishvili has admitted to collecting troop data in Russia's Western Military District, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said Thursday.
Afghanistan's security forces seized about $2 million in counterfeit currency during 2016 as part of efforts to curb forged notes' circulation, local media reported Thursday, citing an Interior Ministry spokesman.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday he welcomed US tough stance on North Korea during a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump, Japanese media reported.
Japan hopes that the US and Chinese leaders will hold a constructive talks on the North Korean issue, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said.
The Australian government called on its citizens on Thursday to reconsider their plans to travel to the Turkish cities of Ankara and Istanbul amid a heightened terrorist threat ahead of commemorative events in Turkey, the country's Veterans Affairs Minister Dan Tehan said.
Russian city of Rostov-on-Don was hit by an explosion, local media reports citing sources in the regional law enforcement services.
Five deaths have been reported in the American South as a result of severe weather, including tornadoes and lightning.
China’s National Space Administration Secretary-General Yulong Tian says that China is contemplating developing cooperation with Russia with respect to space debris.
EC Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska says that the European Commission has no formal cooperation with Russia on space, but it is open to anyone who is interested to cooperate.
America’s favorite baby hippo melts hearts around the world … again.
Donald Trump and Angela Merkel discussed the conflicts in Ukraine and Afghanistan.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces killed 13 jihadists of Daesh terrorist group in clashes near the Daesh-controlled town of Al Tabqah, local media reported.
In light of Ukraine’s continued delays in providing Thailand with T-84 Oplot tanks, the Thai government has signed off on a measure to acquire 10 additional Norinco VT-4 tanks, Defense News reports.
Egyptian archeologists have uncovered the remnants of a 3,700-year-old pyramid in the Dahshur royal necropolis, about 25 miles south of Cairo.
South Korea has conducted a missile test launch in response to Pyongyang’s Wednesday ballistic missile test.
A spokesman of the Roscosmos state corporation said that Russia's first ground station of the Automated Warning System on Hazardous Situations in Outer Space aimed at monitoring orbital debris was opened in Brazil.
Following her stunning election loss, it is unlikely that Hillary Clinton will return to work for her family’s foundation.