As North Korea continues sending defiant messages that it will continue pursuing a weapons program despite Washington’s warnings, Sputnik spoke with a South Korean deputy, Song Young-Gil, who said the US needs to change its approach toward the DPRK in order to resolve this conflict.
Ukrainian authorities have banned German politician Willie Wimmer from entering the country because of his visit to Crimea, TV channel 112 Ukraine reported.
Germany, as well as other NATO allies, will keep troops in Afghanistan for a while to prevent terrorists from getting an advantage over government forces, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said Saturday.
The Russian General Staff said that the civil war in Syria has almost stopped. Political analyst Karine Gevorgyan suggested that this could pave the way for the constitutional process in the country.
Militants of Daesh terrorist group fired mortar shells at residential areas of Syria’s Deir ez-Zor, killing at least one person and wounding 17 others, local media reported Saturday.
Contrary to the expectations of Donald Trump's political rivals, former FBI Director James Comey failed to indict the US president on Thursday, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik. Furthermore, Comey's testimony revealed inconvenient truths about the former FBI director and the Democrats themselves.
The Russian energy minister said that Russia planed to organize a familiarization tour for colleagues from Saudi Arabia.
The Radio-Technical Troops (RTT) of the Russian Aerospace Forces will modernize their one-of-a-kind Nebo-M anti-missile radar system, the RTT commander, General Andrei Koban, announced on Saturday.
Activists reflect on 50 years of Israeli occupation; UK holds snap elections with major gains for the country's Labour Party.
A bear was walking around the Stolby Nature Reserve in Krasnoyarsk, minding his own business when a hidden camera captured his bathing routine.
According to information received by Sputnik, 60 members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have joined the ranks of the Syrian government’s army and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) the backbone of which is the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
UK Prime Minister Theresa May send government's Chief Whip and member of the Conservative Party Gavin Williamson to Northern Ireland's capital of Belfast for the talks on the parliamentary coalition with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), a Downing Street spokesman said Saturday.
Tehran stands for maintaining Iraq's territorial integrity, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Saturday, stressing that Iraqi Kurdistan is tan integral part of Iraq's territory.
The Six-Day War of 1967 became a testing ground for the USSR and NATO's cutting edge weapon systems, Sputnik contributor Andrei Kots writes, unveiling one of the reasons for the defeat of the Arab coalition.
The Wall Street Journal reported citing US officials that the President Donald Trump's administration has been holding "secret talks" with Russia over the creation of a safe zone near al-Tanf where the US-led coalition had repeatedly bombed pro-Damascus allied forces.
On June 8, a United States-led coalition attacked a motorcade of pro-Damascus allied forces near the town of al-Tanf in southern Syria, destroying a tank and several artillery systems. This was the third time coalition strikes have occurred in the area.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently approved the decision of the Turkish Parliament to deploy Turkish soldiers to Qatar. However, according to the former Turkish ambassador to Washington, Faruk Logoglu, the decision could have drastic consequences for Ankara.
Doha does not intend to discuss with anyone the future of the Al Jazeera broadcaster, calling the topic Qatar's domestic affair, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani told in an interview with RT Arabic.
The MC-21 jetliner, Russia’s answer to the Boeing-737 and the Airbus A-320, which made its maiden flight in late May, brings together the very latest in the field of aircraft and engine design.
Doha is interested in maintaining positive relations with Tehran, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said in an interview to RT Arabic Saturday.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May's closest advisers and co-chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, both announced their resignation on Saturday following this week's snap election, in which Conservatives lost the parliamentary majority.
Qatar appreciates mediation activities of Kuwait in the diplomatic row regulation between Doha and the Gulf states, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said in an interview to RT Arabic Saturday.
The Iranian authorities arrested eight more people in relation to Wednesday's deadly terror acts in Tehran, media reported Saturday.
Pentagon released photographs of Russian Su-27 air superiority fighter on Saturday intercepting US' KC-135 military aerial refueling aircraft over the Baltic Sea on June 9.
On June 9, the opening ceremony of Epicenter: Dota 2 took place in VTB Ice Palace in Moscow. The EPICENTER tournament has attracted thousands of viewers who came to watch the world's ten best teams fight for the $500,000 prize pool.