The Taliban parade their new air force in the skies over Afghanistan, and an online video shows American-made Black Hawk helicopters flying over the streets of Kandahar. Writes about this Independent. According to some estimates, the Taliban have more Black Hawk helicopters than 85% of the world. ...
Negotiations between the administration of US President Donald Trump and the Taliban to end the armed conflict in Afghanistan have been ongoing for many months. The BBC writes about this. Trump has repeatedly stated that his goal is to bring American soldiers home and stop the...
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...
The Federation Council has agreed to the use of the Russian air force in Syria, said Sergei Ivanov, head of the Russian presidential administration. The question was brought to the upper house by Vladimir Putin. According to Ivanov, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has asked Vladimir Putin to ...
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem warned that Damascus, if necessary, could ask Moscow to send troops. The minister made such a statement on state television. He assured that to date, the Russian military is not taking part in hostilities in Syria. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said ...
US intelligence has evidence of a significant increase in Russia's involvement in the Syrian civil war, including satellite images of a Russian military base currently under construction near the city that has become a stronghold for the Syrian president ...
The Air Force of Russia and the Aerospace Defense Forces are united in a new type of the Armed Forces - the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation. The new structure includes all types of aviation, air defense and missile defense forces, as well as units of space forces responsible for launching and managing the military ...
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a law that allows the presence of armed forces of other states on the territory of the country. Foreign troops can be brought into the country at the request of its leadership and on the basis of a decision of the UN or the European Union. As noted in the document posted on ...
In the near future, rapid reaction troops will appear in Russia. As the commander of the Airborne Forces Vladimir Shamanov told Interfax, these troops will be created on the basis of airborne troops. It is expected that the rapid reaction forces will be able to operate both independently and as part of the ground forces. By…
On Thursday, a parade of “children’s troops” was held in Rostov-on-Don. The event was already the sixth in a row, but the Russian blogosphere learned the details only this year and reacted with harsh criticism. The event in Rostov was held on the initiative of the head of the city administration Sergei Gorban and…