Abdel-Baki es-Sati, an imam from the Catalan town of Ripoll suspected by the Spanish authorities of masterminding Thursday's terror acts in Catalionia, spent thee months in the Belgian city of Vilvoorde in 2016, the city's Mayor Hans Bonte said Sunday.
The Lebanese army eliminated 12 strongholds of Daesh terror group (outlawed in Russia) on the Lebanese-Syrian border during the second day of its anti-Daesh offensive, a statement of army’s command obtained by Sputnik showed Sunday.
Comedian Jerry Lewis died in his family home Sunday morning, his agent has confirmed. The Hollywood icon was 91 years old.
A total of three people died in a small plane crash in the Swiss canton of Valais, local media reported Sunday.
US President Donald Trump will make an address to the US military on Monday, focusing on further US moves in Afghanistan and South Asia, the White House said Sunday.
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) confirmed on Sunday the killing of 36 civilians by militants in Afghanistan's northern Mirza Olang village in early August.
There are currently no signs of a terror attack threat in Greece, Greek Deputy Minister of National Defense and Alternate Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection Nikos Toskas said Sunday.
UK police have closed a part of Leith Street in Edinburgh for passers-by after finding a suspicious item, local media reported Sunday.
Joint military exercises by the US and South Korea are only "adding fuel to the fire" on the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang said on Sunday.
Ukrainian and US military experts have participated in joint drills, Ukrainian National Police said in a statement on Sunday.
Society should by itself create a system of moral and ethical principles which would help filter information published by the media, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday.
Researchers in the US have uncovered why fans of the popular television show Game of Thrones are so in love with it. The heart rate study showed that it is not due to the sex scenes or abundant violence.
Saudi Arabian Airlines has not yet taken Qatari pilgrims from Doha for Hajj due to the lack of authorization for landing in Doha airport from the Qatari authorities, the carrier’s director general told the Saudi Press Agency on Sunday.
On August 21, 2017, millions of people across the United States will have a once in a lifetime chance to observe one of Mother Nature's most incredible spectacles, a total solar eclipse.
According to information obtained by Sputnik Turkey from a source in the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (aka the Syrian National Coalition), which comprises various opposition groups fighting in the Syrian war, one of the leaders of the rebel coalition came down to the side of President Bashar Assad's government.
For several months now, the US has been unable to decide on a new strategy for Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the situation in the country is getting worse. Political analyst, Abdul Kader Mesbah told Sputnik Dari in an interview that no one will pay attention to the situation in Afghanistan until terrorists begin to threaten the US or the world community.
Take a look at Russian, Chinese, Brazilian and Croatian teams competing at Rostec's International Festival of Fireworks in Moscow.
An Iranian court demanded the US administration to pay $245 million to the victims of chemical attacks carried out by Saddam Hussein's forces during the Iran-Iraqi war of 1980-1988, Iran's Judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Eje'i said Sunday.
North Korea's nuclear activities seem to be something completely unexpected for many international experts on Asian politics. The common view over the years has been that the DPRK is a poor country with a low level of economic development, which invests everything it has into missiles and nuclear weapons.
Syrian President Bashar Assad said on Sunday that Damascus does not consider Ankara as its partner or a guarantor state of Syrian settlement as the latter allegedly supports terrorism and thus undermines political and social crisis settlement in Syria.
Ukrainian security forces continue to place military equipment along the contact line in Donbass, LPR militia spokesman Andrei Marochko said Saturday.
Scottish police have cordoned off an area in the center of Edinburgh over a "suspicious item," local media reported on Sunday.
Syrian opposition groups are yet to discuss Syrian President Bashar Assad’s role in the Syrian settlement during peace talks in Riyadh.
Take a look at US army's new Stryker armored fighting vehicles, which are equipped with Javelin anti-tank missiles.
Russia’s new nuclear submarines will “disappear” from its potential enemy’s radars, Russian newspaper Izvestia wrote. Radio Sputnik discussed the issue with military expert Alexander Mozgovoy who said that the struggle between detection techniques and the stealth technologies of underwater fleets is underway.