The son of Hollywood director Patrick Kinney, according to CNN, turned out to be the first white al-Qaeda fighter in Syria. In the Syrian al-Nusra Front, which is the local branch of al-Qaeda, Briton Lucas Kinney is called the “cover guy”. Lucas' father worked on many projects in Hollywood as an assistant...
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch, citing local residents, brought charges against Russia, claiming that as a result of the actions of the Russian military space forces in Syria, dozens of civilians were killed. The organization claims that in two bombing raids in the north of the province of Homs ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on television that Moscow is ready to provide air support to fighters of the Syrian opposition group Free Syrian Army in areas where it is fighting against jihadists. “We do not want to take into account the specific interests of Bashar alone...
The administration of US President Barack Obama is considering the creation of a no-fly zone and security zones in the border areas of Syria with the involvement of a military contingent. This is reported by The New York Times, citing sources in the White House. On the creation of a no-fly zone, ...
The United States and NATO allies during exercises in Scotland for the first time tested the naval component of a missile defense (ABM) system in Europe. In a statement released by the Pentagon, the interceptor missile, created by Raytheon Co, was first tested outside the United States and successfully intercepted a ballistic missile. In the exercises in Scotland, except for the USA, they accepted ...
On Tuesday, the first reports appeared about those killed on the Russian side in the military operation in Syria. Reuters reported, citing an unnamed source among the Syrian military, that as a result of the hostilities, three Russian citizens were killed and several others were injured. However, confirmation of this ...
Russia has received an agreed memorandum from the US Department of Defense on the prevention of air incidents in Syria, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Tuesday. The memorandum was one of the first steps towards the “deconflictization” of operations in Syria carried out by the Russian Air Force and the coalition Air Force...
At the rally "No war!" two people were detained on Suvorovskaya Square in Moscow, reports Dozhd. In particular, at about 16:00 pm, the police detained a girl with a poster stating that Russian President Vladimir Putin was allegedly involved in the death of people. After a while ...
The agreement between Russia and the United States on flights in Syrian airspace will become the starting point for cooperation between states. On October 17, on the sidelines of the Xiangshan Forum on Security in China, Anatoly Antonov, Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, spoke about this. “If you want, in the current conditions ...
The United States announced that it could not accept a delegation led by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who planned to discuss coordination issues in the fight against terrorism in Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. “We [the United States] were told that the [American] delegation should be sent ...