US-Equipped Forces Penetrate Daesh Defenses in Raqqa - Special Envoy
The US-equipped Syrian Democratic Forces have advanced to the center of Raqqa, US Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk said in a meeting of US-led coalition members on Thursday.
The US-equipped Syrian Democratic Forces have advanced to the center of Raqqa, US Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk said in a meeting of US-led coalition members on Thursday.
Claims that Russia aims to weaken the European Union are "absurd," Moscow wants the bloc to be a strong and an independent actor, Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
Over the past 20 years, global scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in the area of animal cloning, with China announcing last week that it had become the first country in the world to clone a genetically engineered dog.
The installation of the Chinese military base in Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, is only the beginning, Sputnik contributor Andrei Kots believes, explaining why Beijing's first overseas base is by no means the country's last military installation abroad.
The NATO-led Resolute Support mission stated on Thursday that a claim by the Taliban (banned in Russia) that it killed today four US military is not true.
Iraqis took to the streets to celebrate the liberation of Mosul after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi officially declared victory over the Daesh militant group on July 10.
Britain's spending watchdog says a new IT system for Britain's ports and airports will not be ready in time for Brexit. The National Audit Office says delays with the project could cost the Treasury some of the £34 billion (US$44 billion) a year from tax revenue.
Russia comes second only to the United States among the G20 states with regard to military capabilities, Julia Baskakova, a representative of the Russian Public Opinion Research Center’s (VCIOM), said Thursday, citing preliminary results of an expert study.
The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee narrowly backed the legality of a draft plan to allow EU "peace-building" aid to be spent on developing the military of countries such as Somalia and Mali. The move follows years of pressure from France and Germany on to spend more EU money on missions in sub-Saharan Africa.
The fighting broke out with renewed vigour in some areas of the western part of Iraqi Mosul, despite its announced liberation from terrorists, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Thursday.
Turkey will take measures, responding to the start of exploratory drilling, which is carried out by France's oil giant Total at the request of the Cyprus' authorities off the coast of the island without consent of the Turkish side, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday.
France’s President Emanuel Macron needs in his talks with Germany to take a tough stance on the need for Berlin to end its economic dominance as the EU creditor-in-chief in order to allow for the bloc's post-crisis recovery, Sebastien Cochard, a member of French right-wing National Front (FN) party, told Sputnik on Thursday.
Representatives of the Russian Consulate General in Hamburg will meet with two Russian citizens detained during the G20 summit in Hamburg, press attache of the Russian embassy in Berlin said on Thursday.
Despite having one of the lowest prisoner populations in the world, Dutch jails are heaving – not with hardened inmates, but office workers, tourists, fitness fanatics, those with a thirst for adventure and other law abiding citizens. The reason? The Dutch aren't committing enough crimes.
The Iraqi Security Forces will next move to liberate Tal Afar, US Envoy to the Global Coalition to counter Daesh stated on Thursday.
A RT Arabic stringer was detained in Iraqi Kurdistan, the media outlet told Sputnik on Thursday.
The United States calls on all parties involved in the Syrian conflict to adhere to a ceasefire in the country’s southwestern, US special presidential envoy to the coalition Brett McGurk stated on Thursday.
It is not easy to enter the second largest Iraqi city of Mosul after its liberation from Daesh, a phenomenon that was witnessed by a Sputnik correspondent, who had to undergo a number of security checks and endless checkpoints at the road as well.
The US will be a producer of 40% of the world’s extra gas by the year 2022, the IEA said in a press release on Thursday.
The Daesh terror group (banned in numerous countries, including Russia) will continue inspiring terrorists to kill in Europe even as it loses ground in Syria and Iraq, the private intelligence firm Soufan Group warned in a report on Thursday.
The US-led coalition is developing a database of foreign Daesh fighters that already contains 18,000 names, US special presidential envoy Brett McGurk said in a coalition meeting on Thursday.
About 412 medical professionals have been charged with healthcare fraud, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters at a news conference on Thursday.
Russia’s newest small missile corvette Karakurt (project 22800) packs a formidable arsenal, including multipurpose missile launchers, an automatic cannon, an air-defense missile system and powerful electronic-warfare systems.
Three African nations have joined the US-led coalition to defeat Daesh, US special presidential envoy Brett McGurk announced during a coalition meeting on Thursday.
Exams are sometimes the final straw that pushes under-25s into taking their own lives in the UK, according to a major inquiry conducted by the University of Manchester's Center for Mental Health and Safety, the UK's leading research program in this field.