WASHINGTON - The United States and Turkey have conducted joint naval exercises in Black Sea to enhance regional maritime security. US destroyer U.S.S Ross and Turkish vessels as well as aircraft participated in the drills.

MOSCOW - In Russia, ten people were died while 10 others missing presumed dead when a fire broke out on two ships while they were transferring fuel in the Black Sea. Russian maritime officials said the vessels were carrying out a ship-to-ship transfer of fuel in the Kerch Strait. The vessels ...

ANKARA - Two crew members were found dead after a Panama-flagged cargo ship sunk off Turkey's Black Sea coast on Monday, officials said. "The total number of crew members rescued alive is seven and our teams have found the bodies of two. Our rescue efforts continue," the governor's office of the ...

MOSCOW - A Russian Su-27 jet has forced an American Lockheed EP-3 surveillance plane to abort its mission over the Black Sea. Moscow says the jet “took all necessary precautions,” while the Pentagon accused it of an “unsafe” intercept. *“The entire flight of the Su-27 was conducted in ...

Romania's coastguard rescued 66 migrants, including dozens of children, aboard a Turkish ship on the Black Sea after the vessel issued a distress signal.The coastguard dispatched two ships to the area and escorted the vessel to the Black Sea port of Constanta.  

SOCHI, RUSSIA: The leaders of Russia and Turkey on Wednesday publicly re-affirmed their commitment to working together to end the conflict in Syria, despite a gas attack on a Syrian city that tested their fragile alliance.Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan, ...

ISTANBUL: A Russian navy spy ship sank Thursday in the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey after hitting another vessel, but coastguards rescued all of its crew. The Russian military said the Liman -- a former research ship re-fitted as an intelligence vessel -- had a hole torn in its hull after ...

A Russian naval intelligence ship sank off Turkey's Black Sea coast on Thursday after colliding with a vessel carrying livestock and all 78 personnel on board were evacuated, Turkey's coastal safety authority said.The ship, identified as the Liman, collided with the Togo-flagged Youzarsif H, the ...

MOSCOW- A Russian navy ship collided with another vessel off the Turkish coast in the Black Sea Thursday, Russia's defence ministry said, adding that its crew was trying to keep it afloat. The research ship Liman "sustained a hull breach due to a collision" with the ship Ashot-7, 40 kilometres (25 ...

BRUSSELS: (APP) NATO will step up naval war games and surveillance in the Black Sea to complement its increased land and air force presence near a more assertive Russia, the alliance said Thursday. NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg insisted the decision taken by alliance defence ministers in Brussels ...