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Al-Qaeda affiliate issues bounty for capture of Russian troops in Syria: Newsweek
A prominent spiritual leader and financier of al-Qaeda's official branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, issued a bounty worth three million Syrian pounds ($15,900) for the capture of a Russian soldier in Syria on Thursday, a day after Russia carried out its first airstrikes against rebel groups in the country, according to...
Ukraine defies Russia’s demands to pardon militants prior to Donbas elections
During the Normandy Four talks, Russia insisted on the adoption of a new amnesty law, providing for pardon to Russian-backed militants before the elections are held in Donbas, but Ukraine has successfully defended its position, deputy chief of Ukraine’s Presidential Administration Kostiantyn Yeliseiev said at a Kyiv...
Two Ukrainian soldiers killed, five wounded in landmine blast in Donbas
Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another five were wounded in a landmine blast on Sunday evening while patrolling their sector in the Donbas conflict zone, representative of the Donbas Battalion Yevhen Shevchenko said on Monday, according to Ukrainian TV Channel 112. "The soldiers who came to their rescue also got...
Reuters: Egypt says Russia’s intervention in Syria will counter terrorism
Russia's intervention in Syria will curtail the spread of terrorism and help deal a fatal blow to Islamic State in the war-torn country, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Saturday, according to Reuters. Russia launched air strikes in Syria on Wednesday in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades,...
Donbas militants observing full ceasefire on Sunday
The enemy was observing a full ceasefire and did not open fire on Ukrainian positions in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone in Ukraine's east on Sunday, October 4, according to the ATO press center. The truce has allowed Ukraine to start scheduled withdrawals of military hardware and weapons whose caliber is under...
LPR withdraws light weapons, DPR to wait until October 18
The militants of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) terrorist organization claim that they will begin to withdraw small-caliber weapons from the Donbas conflict zone after October 18, according to Eduard Basurin, one of the DPR leaders. "The withdrawal will take place after October 18, if it is quiet. The time should...
Russia says to increase air strikes in Syria
Russia said on Saturday it would increase its air strikes in Syria and was willing to cooperate with all interested countries after carrying out more than 60 sorties in 72 hours there, according to The Daily Mail. "We will not only continue strikes… we will also increase their intensity," said Andrei Kartapolov...
Nine dead after U.S. air attack on Afghan hospital
The U.S. military on Saturday acknowledged it may have bombed a hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz in an air strike that killed at least nine people and wounded 37, according to Reuters. "U.S. forces launched an air strike at 02:15 a.m. (17:45 ET), the spokesman, Col....
Ukraine begins withdrawal of small-caliber weapons from Donbas
Ukraine will begin the withdrawal of military equipment and small-caliber weapons from the demarcation line in the Donbas conflict zone in the afternoon on Saturday, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday. "In the afternoon on...
Turchynov: Active hostilities still possible in Donbas
Despite the compliance with the ceasefire, a threat of active hostilities still remains in the Donbas conflict zone, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov told journalists after visiting a National Guard's training center in Kyiv region. "Ukraine fulfills all of its obligations...
Previously unseen footage of US 1955 nuke tests in Nevada (HD VIDEO)
Six decades after the events, a series of unreleased videos has seen the light of day: four atomic explosions carried out by the United States in 1955, as part of Operation Teapot. The operation was a series of fourteen nuclear test explosions carried out at the Nevada Test Site early that year, designed to further develop...
OSCE reports large number of heavy weapons in «DPR»
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine recorded a large number of heavy weaponry in the militant-controlled areas of Donetsk region, according to the report published on September 30. “In violation of the respective withdrawal lines, the SMM unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) spotted four main battle tanks (MBTs)...