Talks aimed at ending trade war fail with thousands of travellers visiting family and on business now facing arduous journeys. Direct flights between Ukraine and Russia were grounded on Sunday, as mistrust between the two countries boiled over into a new trade war that could affect hundreds of thousands of...
The prisoner is dressed in the traditional executions LIH orange jumpsuit. The network has a new video penalty Syrian soldiers "Islamic state", the Heavy. The video is called "And if you punish the enemy, O believers, that punishment should be equivalent to your suffering." The prisoner is...
One of al-Qaeda's senior commanders in Syria has been killed in a gun battle with Syrian Arab Army forces in Aleppo, according to The Daily Mail. The al-Nusra Front, the Sunni Islamic jihadist militia fighting against Syrian Government forces in the civil war, confirmed Sheikh Abu Sulaiman al-Masri's death this morning,...
Russian-backed militants in Donbas attacked the Ukrainian troops in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone near the village of Pisky at night, using anti-aircraft systems and grenade launchers, according to the ATO press center. "It was quiet almost along the entire contact line, but the area near the village of Pisky...
No country in the world will go to war with Russia, said Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in an interview with the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnia. "No one would resort to military action against a nuclear power like Russia. I mean, not only Ukraine wouldn’t," Klimkin said. Minister of Foreign Affairs...
As of today, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has no control along 409.3 km of the border with Russia in the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas, Chairman of the State Border Guard Service Viktor Nazarenko said during a visit to Kharkiv region on Friday. "The stretch is 409.3 kilometers long. We've got...
French journalists from France24 film the Russian troops from an airbase in Syria’s Latakia with a candid camera. In a conversation, filmed with a outside the airbase, on the city streets, the soldiers opined that the Russian military will stay in Syria until the end, accrding to France24. "We can just tell you that...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law on amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Military Duty and Military Service" for clarification of the period of military service under the contract, the presidential press service told an UNIAN correspondent. The law is aimed at ensuring the establishment of...
An American was killed in an operation involving the U.S. military to rescue dozens of Kurdish hostages in Iraq overnight, two U.S. officials told CNN on condition of anonymity Thursday. Seventy hostages were liberated in the operation, which involved U.S. special operations troops as well as Kurdishand Iraqi forces, U.S....
United States sharply criticized Russia for its air strikes in Syria by opponents of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, saying that these attacks only strengthen extremist group "Islamic State", against which they supposedly directed. As stated by the US permanent representative to the United Nations Samantha...
Another convoy of trucks that Moscow says is carrying humanitarian aid to Ukrainians in Donbas has crossed the border of Ukraine, the National Center for Crisis Management of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry reported on Thursday. The convoy was divided into two parts en route: some trucks went to the Donetsk border...
The United States won assurances from Iraq on Tuesday that it would not seek Russian air strikes against Islamic State, U.S. Marine General Joseph Dunford said, adding he warned Baghdad that a Russian air role would impede the U.S.-led campaign, Reuters has reported. Dunford, on his first trip to Iraq since becoming chairman of...