On Tuesday, the Russian Black Sea Fleet warship launched strikes with Kalibr cruise missiles on Daesh targets in Syria as part of an operation to free Deir ez-Zor. These missiles have been proving their effectiveness since releasing their destructive potential at terrorists in October 2015, a military expert, Victor Litovkin, told Radio Sputnik.
NATO fighters have again intercepted Russian warplanes in international airspace. The number of air incidents involving Russian and NATO planes has increased in the past years as a result of growing presence of the US-led alliance forces near Russia’s western border since 2014.
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has declared a state of emergency due to Hurricane Irma, said in a press release on Wednesday.
Moscow shed details on the US law enforcers' searches inside Russian diplomatic facilities.
The US will introduce the single bill on debt ceiling, funding the government until December 15 and aid for Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
As the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok is underway, Sputnik discussed ideas to promote tourism in the Russian Far East with the president of the Japan Association for Trade with Russia and the Newly Independent States.
According to Russian Envoy to the Contact Group on Ukraine Boris Gryzlov, Kiev amnesty law undermines the Minsk agreements.
In an astonishing discovery archaeologists have found a network of underwater ruins, which once belonged to a flourishing Roman city, known as Neapolis, off the coast of northeast Tunisia.
US President Donald Trump scaled down his rhetoric threatening to apply military force to solve the North Korean issue after Pyongyang's latest nuclear test.
The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) officials are shoring up toxic waste in southern Florida as Hurricane Irma approaches the coast.
Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries Representative Director Shigeru Murayama on Wednesday in an interview to Sputnik talked about the industrial cooperation between Russia and Japan.
The Czech Republic could have gained more from withdrawing from the European Union rather than remaining within the bloc's ranks, Vladimira Vitova, the chairwoman of the Alliance of National Forces told Sputnik, adding that major EU powers are using Central and Eastern Europe as their 'colony.'
The Slow Mo Guys, famous for their spectacular and very satisfying experiments, filmed two fast-moving paintball projectiles colliding midair and made the video ultra-slow so that everyone could enjoy the explosion.
The USS McCain that collided with a merchant vessel near Singapore killing ten sailors in a worrying latest incident involving US Navy ships will be repaired in Japan.
The Kremlin commented on President Putin's economic agenda at the economic forum underway in the Russian Far East which gathered over 3,500 participants from more than 50 countries.
Martin Shkreli, infamous for hiking the price of vital drug Daraprim 4000 percent, has once again stoked online controversy after asking his followers to secure a sample of Hillary Clinton's hair.
Syrian opposition members commented on the Syrian army's lifting of the three-year siege of Deir ez-Zor by Daesh (ISIS, banned in Russia) terrorists.
Iranian Press TV broadcaster's journalists were attacked by Daesh (banned in Russia) near the city of Deir ez-Zor in Syria, the media reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources.
It is a mystery that left some of the best brains in the business totally baffled - why were healthy sperm whales suddenly finding themselves stranded on beaches all over Europe?
In light of the recent nuclear test by North Korea, Washington and Tokyo are discussing the intention to take measures to enhance Japan's security.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has better chances to win the race than her Social Democrat opponent Martin Schulz, political analyst Dr. Gero Neugebauer told Sputnik commenting on a recent debate ahead of the upcoming general election.
A blast at the entry of the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan caused "a small number of casualties", the US military said Wednesday as quoted by Reuters.
Foreign investors are satisfied with Russia's initiatives aimed at improving the investment climate of the country's Far East, the RDIF CEO of the said Wednesday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again resorted to strong language and compared German authorities to Nazis after both Chancellor Angela Merkel and her main election rival Martin Schulz agreed at a debate that there's no place for Ankara in the EU.
This is what happens when two of the most popular things on the internet – cats and Game of Thrones – come together.