Moscow says five Russian citizens may have been killed in recent attacks by US warplanes on pro-government forces in the eastern Syrian province of Dayr al-Zawr. Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, emphasized in a briefing in the capital Moscow on Thursday that the five victims weren’t Russian servicemen. “According to preliminary information, five […]

The United States is not in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban but because America’s main rivals like China, Russia and Iran are in the neighborhood, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says. Karzai, 60, made the remarks in an interview with The Washington Post’s Pamela Constable who’s the newspaper’s bureau chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The interview […]

A gleaming monument to the ambition and creativity of its age, the world’s largest Victorian glasshouse will once again welcome visitors to see some of the world’s rarest plants following a lengthy facelift. “Temperate House” in London’s Kew Gardens is large enough to house three jumbo jets, and was home to around 1,000 species of […]

The German government on Wednesday sought to play down plans to introduce free public transport, a day after the radical proposal to fight air pollution made headlines around the world. The measure was one of several proposed in a recent letter Berlin sent to EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella as Germany scrambles to avoid big […]

 Commander of Iran’s Army Ground Force Brigadier General Kioomars Heidari said contracts to use Iranian homegrown military tank Karrar are ready to be delivered to the Iranian armed forces. Commander Heidari underlined that Karar tank is one of the unique products that have been contracted by the Army to be delivered to the factories for mass […]

DEBKAfile, Israeli military intelligence website based in Jerusalem, said “Hezbollah al-Nujaba, backed by Moscow and Tehran, pursues an important mission in Syria”.‌ According to the report of Hezbollah al-Nujaba Media and Relations office, the Zionist website “DEBKAfile”, affiliated with the Israeli army Intelligence Agency, in a report dealt with the role of the Resistance groups […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the unilateral acts of the USA constitute a threat on Syria’s territorial integrity. During a press conference with his Belgian counterpart Didier Reynders held in Moscow Tuesday, Lavrov said that the USA, which has troops in Syria without getting any official invitation, adding that the US Secretary of […]

The United States is warning the European Union not to use its deepened military cooperation as an excuse to protect Europe’s defense industry, saying such practices could undermine NATO. The US ambassador to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison, said Tuesday that “we do not want this (cooperation) to be a protectionist vehicle for EU.” She said […]

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday the alliance was ready to answer a US call for NATO to expand its small training mission in Iraq to support reconstruction of the country after three years of war with terrorists. US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis sent a letter to NATO last month calling for a […]

The world has abundant freshwater but it is unevenly distributed and under increasing pressure, UN agencies say, as highlighted by the severe shortages in Cape Town. – Water, water ‘everywhere’ – More than 97 percent of the planet’s water is salty, most of it in the oceans and seas, but there is also a good […]