KYIV – A fire erupted at Europe's largest nuclear power plant following shelling by Russian troops in Ukrainian city of Energodar as the war entered the second week. Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba warned that if the Zaporizhzhia power plant "blows up" it will be ten-time disastrous ...

The U.S. President Donald Trump has called on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela and said that “all options” are open to make that happen. Two Russian air force planes carrying nearly 100 troops landed at the outskirts of Caracas on Saturday has escalated the political crisis in ...

MOSCOW - Russia has sent over 63,000 troops to Syria over the course of its involvement in the conflict, the Russian defence ministry said Wednesday. A total of 63,012 Russian personnel have "received combat experience" in the war-torn country, the ministry said in a video about Russia's ...

In Syria, the rebels in Bosra al-Sham town of Daraa province have agreed to a deal to hand over their heavy weapons to Russian troops. This has been reported by Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state media. Jordan on Sunday mediated a new round of talks between the rebels in the ...

Moscow: At least 26 Syrian forces and nine Russian troops were killed in an Islamic State group's attack in Syria's eastern desert earlier this week. This was reported by Syrian Observatory for Human Rights today. It said the jihadists had targeted a group of Syrian and allied Russian troops in ...

Russia has ratified naval base agreement with Syria.The Russian parliament has voted to extend lease of a naval base in Syria for 49 years following the announcement of a partial pullout of Russian troops from that country.The agreement allows Russia to keep 11 vessels there at a time including ...

MOSCOW (APP) - Six Russian troops died in the early hours of Friday when a group of insurgents attacked their base in Chechnya, with six rebels killed in the resulting shootout, the National Guard said. Russia's National Guard, established last year, is a new branch of internal troops aimed at ...

RAWALPINDI: (APP) Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif visited field area near Attock and witnessed the ongoing Pakistan-Russia joint exercise " DRUZBAH", which commenced on 27 September.COAS met participating troops and appreciated their professionalism, skills and dedication, an ISPR ...

RAWALPINDI (APP): A contingent of Russian ground forces arrived Pakistan for the first ever Pak-Russian joint exercise that would continue for two weeks.The exercise is scheduled to be held from September 24 to October 10, 2016, an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release said.

PABRADE, Lithuania (APP) - Lithuania on Tuesday opened a fake town featuring a school, sports stadium and shopping mall to practice urban warfare amid concerns over a militarily resurgent Russia next door.The first such training centre in the Baltic states, it will allow Lithuanian troops and their ...