MOSCOW - Russian forces crossed the Euphrates River in Syria and headed for the border with Turkey, state media reported Wednesday, under a deal for the withdrawal of Kurdish forces. The Rossiya-24 television channel and TASS news agency quoted the defence ministry as saying the convoy of Russian ...

MOSCOW - Russia said on Saturday it had killed nine militants who had been plotting a terrorist act in the volatile Dagestan region in the south of the country. Russia’s anti-terrorist committee said on its website it had received information that militants who planned to carry out an attack ...

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered Russian forces in Syria to start withdrawing, saying that after a two year military campaign, Moscow and Damascus had achieved their mission of destroying Islamic State.Putin made the announcement during a surprise visit to Russia’s Hmeymim air ...

MOSCOW: Russian armed forces are ready to complete any mission and counter any potential aggression, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Putin made the remarks prior to a military parade on Moscow's Red Square to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic ...

ANKARA: (APP) Turkey has summoned the Russian charge d'affaires after a Turkish soldier was shot by sniper fire from Kurdish militia-controlled Syria, where Moscow has troops, Ankara said on Thursday. Ankara said the soldier was killed in the southern Turkish province of Hatay during ...

The U.S. and diplomatic officials said any such Russian deployment might be part of a bid to support Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar, who suffered a setback with an attack on March 3 by the Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) on oil ports controlled by his forces.The U.S. officials, who spoke ...

MOSCOW: (APP) The Kremlin said Friday that Turkey had provided Russian forces with the target location for an air strike in Syria that accidentally killed three Turkish troops, but Ankara gave a different version of events."The situation is obvious, unfortunately. Our military while launching ...

MOSCOW (APP) - A Russian soldier has been killed in Syria, a regional governor said Friday, without giving details of his death.Local officials, however, said he died in May."Asker Bizhoyev has died heroically while carrying out a military assignment in Syria," Yury Kokov, the governor of the ...

BEIRUT (APP): Militants and their rebel allies pressed an offensive Friday with a massive attack aimed at seizing a military academy south of Aleppo and breaking a three-week-old siege of insurgent neighbourhoods.Their assault focusing on the artillery and armaments schools of the academy has ...

DAMASCUS: Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russian Forces can be deployed back in Syria within hours if needed. He said “Of course, if required Russia will be ready in just a few hours time to increase its forces in the region to a size that is adequate to meet the situation and use ...