VLADIMIR Putin is preparing to send 150,000 troops to Syria in a bid to wipe out the evil Islamic State once and for all as he hints at joining the West following the Paris attacks. The Russian leader is reportedly mounting an enormous military mission to take control of the terror group's stronghold of Raqqa. The city is...
Former and serving diplomats and intelligence officials tell the Telegraph that President Obama's hopes of defeating Islamic State are based on "smoke and mirrors" President Barack Obama's attempts to destroy Isil have been derided by Western diplomats and his own former intelligence officials. Mr Obama has...
State of emergency declared after attack on bus carrying security forces in downtown Tunis leaves 12 people dead. At least 12 people have been killed in an explosion targeting a bus carrying presidential guards in the Tunisian capital, the interior ministry said, calling the incident a "terror act". The bus was hit on...
The situation in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) area remains tense. Terrorists continue conducting provocation fire in all directions. This was announced by the ATO press center on Facebook. According to the HQ information, in this way the mercenaries are trying to provoke Ukrainian troops to fire in order to...
In Paris, the representatives of the Colombian mafia,who are in the international wanted list, shot two militants LIH that bursted into the cafe with machine guns. the representatives of the cartel have saved dozens of lives by their actions and have stumped police, that...
TURKEY has summoned Russia's ambassador following "intensive" bombing of ethnic Turkish people in Syria – amid fears the two powers may clash and spark World War 3. The Turkish foreign ministry is warning that the Russian attacks targeting civilian Turkmen villages "could lead to serious...
Islamic State's official magazine carried a photo on Wednesday of what it said was the improvised bomb that brought down the Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board, Reuters reports. "The divided Crusaders of the East and West thought themselves safe in their jets...
Moscow's military force in Syria has grown to about 4,000 personnel, but this and more than a month of Russian air strikes have not led to pro-government forces making significant territorial gains, U.S. security officials and independent experts said, according to Reuters. Moscow, which has maintained a military presence...
China's naval commander told his U.S. counterpart that a minor incident could spark war in the South China Sea if the United States did not stop its "provocative acts" in the disputed waterway, the Chinese navy said on Friday, according to Reuters. "If the United States continues with these kinds of...
Iran is likely to be invited for the first time to international talks with the U.S. and Russia in Vienna this week over the Syrian conflict, according to the U.S. State Department, BBC News reports. "Whether they come or not is up to Iranian leaders," said U.S. state department spokesman John Kirby, according to BBC...
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,...
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...