Putin Backs Harsher Penalties, Including Life Sentences, for Terror Recruiters Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved a law introducing harsher penalties, including life sentences, for terrorist recruitment, according to documents published on the Russian legal information website. 29.12.2017
Turkish Forces Arrest 170 People Allegedly Linked to Terrorism Turkish security forces have managed to detain more suspects allegedly linked to terrorism and also to seize militants' weapons, digital materials and money. 28.12.2017
Erdogan Slams Assad as 'Terrorist', Damascus Reminds Him of Own 'Crimes' Turkey is one of the guarantors of the Syrian ceasefire, brokered also by Russia and Iran. 27.12.2017
Number of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Dips Below 1Mln for First Time Since 2014 Ceasefires in some parts of Syria apparently have contributed to the decline of the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, which has dropped below one million, according to UNHCR. 26.12.2017
Probe Into 2016 Russian Tu-154 Crash Near Sochi Rules Out Blast on Board All data obtained during the investigation of the Tu-154 airplane crash near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi last year completely rules out the version of an explosion on board the aircraft, Russian Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko has said. 25.12.2017
Trump's 'Gamble': Jerusalem Decision May Cause War - Iran's Parliament Speaker Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani spoke about Trump's Jerusalem move as well as Syrian peace settlement talks after meeting Russia's State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin in Islamabad. 24.12.2017
Number of Terror-Related Cases Opened in Germany Up Five-fold in 2017 – Reports The German Public Prosecutor General opened five times more cases related to terrorism in 2017 than in the previous year, local media reported on Saturday. 23.12.2017
Russia Ready to Help Deescalate Tensions With North Korea Moscow is urging all parties to the Korean crisis to take efforts to deescalate tensions on the Korean peninsula, and stands ready to foster these efforts, Russia's Deputy Envoy to the UN Vladimir Safronkov said following the vote on the new sanctions against Pyongyang at the UN Security Council on Friday. 22.12.2017
Mission Impossible: Will Boris Johnson Thaw UK-Russia Relations? Johnson is scheduled to visit Moscow this Friday in what would be the first official visit by a British Foreign Secretary to Russia in more than five years. 21.12.2017
Iraq’s Abadi mulls taking full control of penniless Kurdistan as riots spark worries of new crisis MPs in Baghdad must have pinched themselves when a KRG delegation recently asked them for money. 20.12.2017
‘Abandon Cold War mentality’: China hits back at Trump’s ‘selfish’ national strategy China has rejected the insinuation that it is a “revisionist state,” voiced by the US in its national security strategy. 19.12.2017
Trump unveils new security strategy based on 'principled realism' President Donald Trump has released a new national security strategy for the US. 18.12.2017
Libyan National Army Commander: Government of National Accord Lost Legitimacy Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) lost its legitimacy as the Libyan Political Agreement reached in December 2015 in Skhirat has expired, Libyan National Army Commander Gen. 17.12.2017
German Intelligence Covertly Provided Media With Information Criticizing Russia German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) covertly provided a number of journalists with information containing criticism of Russia, local media reported. 16.12.2017
Analysts: Russia Saved Syria From Disintegration Instigated by US Although Russia has upset the US strategy aimed at disintegrating Syria and remapping the Middle East, Washington will not stop trying to implement its plans, Turkish military analysts have told Sputnik, stressing that US President Donald Trump's Jerusalem move is a sign that the Americans will continue to provoke conflicts in the region. 15.12.2017
EU Leaders Agree to Prolong Anti-Russian Economic Sanctions EU has decided to prolong the anti-Russian economic sanctions for another six months, European Council President Donald Tusk said. 14.12.2017
Catalan Crisis Could Cost Spain Nearly 15% of Tourists, Over $14Bln The tourist flow to Spain could go down by as much as 15 percent because of the crisis caused by Catalonia's attempt to secede, survey shows. 13.12.2017
Pentagon Looking to Triple Size of Afghan Air Force by 2025 The US military is set to triple the size of the Afghan air force over the next 7 to 8 years, Air Force Brig. 12.12.2017
Attempted Terror Attack Shows Need for Strict Immigration Reform - White House The attempted terrorist attack in New York City shows the need for enhanced immigration policies so as to prevent terrorists from entering the United States, White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders said during a press briefing on Monday. 11.12.2017
Bitcoin 'Will Burst When There is No New Money to Feed It' - Analyst With Bitcoin having lost a fifth of its value in a single day after earlier surging by more than 40 percent, Leonid Delitsin, a leading analyst at the investment holding company "FINAM," told Radio Sputnik that Bitcoin is actually a bubble waiting to burst. 10.12.2017
