A Russian-built A-100 airborne early warning and control (AWACS) aircraft will be able to detect new classes of targets, including new generation tactical aircraft, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday.
Russia's Almaz-Antey defense corporation will for the first time take part in the International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF'17) in Istanbul to present its new air defense systems, including the S-400 system, the company's press service said on Tuesday in a statement.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s membership in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been restored, according an AKP high council decision reached Tuesday.
The participants of the VI Moscow Conference on International Security, held last week, brought closer the approaches to solve global and regional security issues, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday.
The art of counterterrorism operations has come a long way since the first specialized units of police commandos were established decades ago. Almost every country now has such units of its own, but it’s up to specialists to single out the best of the best.
Iran's incumbent President Hassan Rouhani and cleric Ebrahim Raisi, who heads the Astan Quds Razavi autonomous charitable foundation, are the main contenders at the upcoming presidential election, with inflation and unemployment expected to be the key issues on the agenda, political analyst Mani Mehrabi told Sputnik Persian.
The chances of French independent presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron to defeat right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen in the run-off dropped by 1 percent since Monday, a fresh OpinionWay poll showed Tuesday.
As of late, Muslim headwear has become an increasingly fraught issue across Europe. A Swedish woman has been urged to take off her headscarf if she wanted a position at the Scandinavian airline SAS, which triggered a hot debate in Sweden.
Representatives of the Ahrar ash-Sham military group, should they attend the Astana for the talks on Syria, will be proposed to engage in stabilization in one of the four intended de-escalation zones, a source close to one of the delegations in Astana told Sputnik.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained a group of local residents in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa on suspicion of "preparing terrorist acts, sabotage and provocations," the SBU said in a statement Tuesday.
Poland considers that the recent statement of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron about an alleged alliance between his rival Marine Le Pen and chairman of the Polish ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party Jaroslaw Kaczynski is inappropriate.
Pakistani and Indian local military commanders established hotline contact after a reported escalation in the border regions, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces, said Tuesday in a statement.
Insurgents of the Taliban Islamic Movement have killed at least 27 militants of the Daesh terrorist group (both groups are outlawed in Russia) in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, local media reported Tuesday, citing a provincial government statement.
Black and red caviar labeling could appear in Russia next year to tackle poaching, Rosrybolovstvo told Sputnik on Tuesday.
The current crisis on the Korean Peninsula is the product of a militarized state, led by an unpredictable and capricious leader, which cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. That militarized state is of course the United States, and that unstable and capricious leader is Donald Trump.
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Human rights and basic freedoms of French citizens will be endangered in case right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen wins the presidential election, independent candidate Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday.
Louis Aliot, the vice-president of the French National Front (FN) party, on Tuesday said that the party has not provided accreditation to journalists of several media outlets due to their alleged espionage activities.
Beijing is calling on Washington and South Korea to end the deployment of the US' THAAD system in South Korea, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Friday.
French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron said that he had two candidates in mind for the country's prime minister office.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is paying an official visit to Russia on Tuesday, which is why Sputnik decided to refresh the most significant moments of the Russian-German bilateral relations.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Kaan Esener believes that new demands of the European Union regarding Turkey's membership to the bloc are a "provocation" aimed at ousting the country from accession dialogue.
France is not likely to leave the European Union if Emmanuel Macron comes to power, Russian Senator Frants Klintsevich told Sputnik, adding that the politician has not ruled out a potential Frexit as a means to court Marine Le Pen's voters.
The fourth round of Syrian reconciliation talks in Astana will start through bilateral meetings behind the scenes, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
The Turkish delegation could discuss several Russia's proposals with the armed Syrian opposition members, a diplomatic source told Sputnik.