While the world's attention is mostly focused on the Middle East at the moment, a silent spy battle is unfolding in the Balkans. Who are the main players and what are they seeking to achieve?
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expressed hope Thursday that the European Union would strengthen its role in seeking a peaceful solution to the Donbass conflict and reinstating Kiev’s control over Crimea.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that he found the debates and protests sparked by US President Donald Trump's visit to France surprising, as it was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the United States joining the Allied Powers in World War I.
Russia warned NATO at the meeting of the Russia-NATO Council on Thursday of the threat of Afghanistan turning into a safe haven for terrorists, Russia's envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko said.
The exchange of briefings on military exercises between Russia and NATO is not enough for deescalation, this requires the restoration of fully-fledged contacts between military officials, Russia's envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko said Thursday.
Google has spent millions funding academic research in the US and Europe to influence public opinion and policymakers, a report issued by US-based Campaign for Accountability has claimed. The search giant's record of academic "astroturfing" is said to put it in the same league as big oil and tobacco.
Chinese nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo died of organ failure on Thursday.
Daesh has confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Meanwhile, the Iraqi Army declared the liberation of Mosul and United States forces entered Raqqa. As Daesh rapidly loses ground in Syria and Iraq the problem of the future of radical Islamism in the Middle East is getting increasingly urgent.
An Irishman will go on trial in Germany later this month in connection with an attack on a British Army base more than 20 years ago. In 1996 a unit of the Provisional IRA fired a mortar shell into the grounds of the base in Osnabruck.
Russia’s city of Yekaterinburg is hosting the annual Innoprom industrial exhibition. The host region itself has always been known for its arms production, but with the development of state-of-the art civil products Russian manufacturers are planning to storm new markets.
Top Democrats in the US House of Representatives have introduced a version of the bill on Russia and Iran sanctions that is identical to the one passed by the US Senate last month, the Democrats on the Foreign Affairs Committee said in a press release on Thursday.
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin strongly condemned on Tuesday the NATO-made short film about anti-Soviet resistance in the Baltic states after the World War II, noting that the attempt to glorify people who served in Nazi battalions during the war and killed Soviet soldiers was absolutely "brazen."
Azerbaijani Armed Forces had anti-missile weapons capable of shooting down Iskander missiles systems deployed in Armenia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivered a speech in the German capital on Thursday.
Remember Fiona, the cutest Nile hippopotamus at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden? Here she is, exploring an outdoor pool together with her parents for the first time!
US-led coalition forces conducted 24 strikes against Daesh in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday.
Not a week goes by without North Korea appearing in the news, and yet the situation in the northern part of the Korean peninsula carries on. Why can North Korea continue to threaten world security? What are the hidden politics behind this ‘hostile interdependence?’
Developers of the Hwaseong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, which was successfully launched on July 4, were personally conferred by the North Korean leader with the highest orders and memorable gifts: watches and collections of his quotes.
NATO and Russia exchanged information on their upcoming military exercises during the NATO-Russia Council, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday.
Germany and France will devise new proposals to shore up the eurozone monetary union, the Elysee Palace said Thursday following a joint cabinet meeting.
Turkish security forces and intelligence have detained 44 fighters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), outlawed in Turkey, including the organizer of the 2016 Vodafone Arena terror attack in the Turkish city of Istanbul, the city's governor, Vasip Sahin, said Thursday.
The Federal Reserve’s uncertainty of US inflation and economic growth, and delays in fiscal stimulus implementation have produced a decline in the US dollar’s FX rate against a basket of its 10 peers, particularly as the Fed’s optimistic view of the economy contradicted the tepid data.
Women are to be allowed to serve in the UK's Royal Air Force Regiment, the RAF ground fighting, close combat division, for the first time from September, Defense Secretary Michael Fallon announced at July's RAF Air Power Conference in London.
The contract on the delivery of Russian tanks, Smerch multiple rocket launchers and Msta-S self-propelled howitzers to Azerbaijan is 90-percent complete and paid for, Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
The Turkish Armed Forces and the Free Syrian Army are intensifying their military activities in the Syrian cities of Marra and Azaz, located near Afrin, head of the Afrin Kurdish canton Hevi Mustafa told Sputnik.