S-300 and S-400 air defense systems have been used in a live firing practice in the course of the international exercise Combat Brotherhood-2017 near Astrakhan, the commander of the allied aviation and air defense group of the CIS countries, Lieutenant-General Viktor Sevostyanov told the media. “The tactical episode is over. There are no targets in […]

Speaking to MNA about Indonesia’s measures to help resolve the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, Ambassador Ocatvino Alimudin believes Myanmar government would go on to consider some practical measures to resolve the issue and its stance is gearing toward the international community’s wishes. The grievous situation of 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims in the wake of a […]

Amnesty international has censured Bahrain for using “an array of repression tools,” including torture and sexual abuse, in its brutal crackdown on dissent, blaming the silence of the Western states, especially the US and the UK, for a sharp rise in Manama’s use of violence. In a report, titled ‘No one can protect you’: Bahrain’s year […]

US prosecutors have charged two Turkish ex-officials with conspiring to evade US sanctions against Iran, a US attorney’s office has said in a filing. The indictment broadens a case targeting Turkish-Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab over sanctions evasion, which has fuelled tension between the United States and Turkey, reported Hurryiet Daily. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has […]

Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said that Vladimir Putin had not received an invitation from Donald Trump to attend a meeting on reforming the United Nations. Russian President Vladimir Putin had not received an invitation from US counterpart Donald Trump to attend a meeting on reforming the United Nations, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said Thursday. […]

Israel continues to sell weapons to Myanmar’s military junta despite the ongoing persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the state of Rakhine. The arms sold to the junta reportedly include over 100 tanks and boats as well as other sorts of weapon. Israeli arms companies such as TAR Ideal Concepts have also been involved in training Myanmar’s special forces, who are […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says army troops, backed by allied Kurdish forces, will soon launch a multi-pronged operation to liberate Hawijah town in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk from Daesh Takfiri terrorists. Addressing reporters during a weekly press briefing in the capital Baghdad on Wednesday, Abadi stated that government forces, in full cooperation with […]

Famous Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan has been interrogated in London over suspicions of bribing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Milchan was questioned last week as part of the so-called Case 1000 corruption investigation dealing with gifts given to Netanyahu and his family by businessmen, Haaretz reported on Wednesday. In Case 1000, Netanyahu is suspected of having received […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for engagement with North Korea, reiterating that the US-led sanctions against Pyongyang will not resolve the intensifying tensions with the Asian country. “Without political and diplomatic tools, it is impossible to make headway in the current situation; to be more precise, it is impossible at all,” Putin said at […]

Myanmar has reportedly been planting landmines across an area of its border with Bangladesh as thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing a bloody crackdown to take refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. Two government sources in Bangladesh told Reuters on Wednesday that Myanmarese forces had been “putting the landmines in their territory along the barbed-wire fence,” between […]