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The incident was the worst case of friendly fire between Russia and President Bashar al-Assad's regime

United Nations gives cautious backing to Russian-Turkish agreement in Idlib

'Israel holds the Assad regime, whose military shot down the Russian plane, fully responsible for this incident'

15 people were killed when the Russian plane was brought down, says defense ministry

Separately, a missile strike on a military target in the coastal Syrian region of Latakia killed at least two people

Pentagon says the United States was not involved and declined to provide further details

According to pact, all heavy weapons be withdrawn from the buffer zone and so the 'radically-minded rebels'

Turkey has intensified negotiations with Russia to avert a possible attack

Some three million people live in the area which was issued a warning of a full scale government assault

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has described Vostok-18 as Russia's biggest ever war games

Russia seeks push for changes to an independent report on sanctions violations, says US ambassador to UN

US President Donald Trump seeks to impose fresh sanctions on Tehran and reduce its oil sales to zero

Russia and Turkey are on opposite sides of the conflict, but key global allies

Young, bright and clustering minds being contaminated by the conspiracy theory networks on the internet

Manafort is already convicted in a separate jury trial on eight counts related to financial fraud in August

Ministry of Defence air footage of mock-up rescue operation in the Bering Sea

The men insist that they do not work for Russia's GRU military intelligence

Tensions between Russia and the US and its NATO allies are running at levels not seen since the Cold War

British investigators say poison was transported in fake perfume bottle

Amid fears of an all-out military assault

Russian President and Chinese Defence Minister attended to oversee military exercise

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday travelled to watch Russia's biggest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union

Order sets up a 90-day time frame for assessing reports of any kind of interference by foreign individuals, companies

Kremlin's defence ministry hails the army drills as successful

Britain issues arrest warrants for Russian nationals on suspicion of trying to kill Skripal and his daughter

32,090km long route deemed longest by researchers

UN agencies warn that any major assault on Idlib could spark one of the worst humanitarian disasters of Syria's war

Russian defence ministry says film crews from several Middle Eastern TV channels have arrived for the shoot in Idlib

NATO condemns rehearsal, terms it as a stimulus for a "large-scale conflict"

Week-long deployment alongside Chinese, Mongolian armies dubbed "Vostok-2018" will start in eastern Siberia on Sep...

Syria's last major militant bastion Idlib was Saturday targeted by "most violent" Russian air strikes in a month

Russia is Vietnam's biggest weapons supplier and Russian companies are involved in several Vietnamese energy projects

A top US envoy says there is evidence that chemical weapons were being prepared by Syrian government forces in Idlib

At every momentous turn in history we have seen emergence of testimonials that shape the future of the political order

It got so close that we imagine it was trying to intercept our communications, says Defence Minister Florence Parly

Russian air strikes killed two people in Syria's Idlib Friday

Leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey are scheduled to discuss the looming military assault on Idlib

Hundreds of civilians flee to the province as government forces and allies prepare for major confrontation

Erdogan has been seen to be cosying up to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin

Russia has long denied any involvement in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury

Both sides are keen to sign an arms accord magnifying sales of more sensitive US military equipment to India

Russian Minister had said earlier that any Russian military action in Syria was to minimise civilian casualties

Vladimir Putin’s career in Russian politics began in August 1999

Pakistani nationals honoured by President Putin for rescuing Russian climber Alexander Gukov on July 31

Move comes after Russian president faces a record fall in his approval ratings as a result of unpopular pension reform

US officials claim that an assault on Idlib could lead to many casualties

18 people seek medical help as the plane skids off a runway in the Olympic city of Sochi

Russian Foreign Minister says the Syrian government has every right to chase militants out of Idlib

Russia accuses Ukraine of assassinating him while Kiev blames separatist infighting

HTS swore allegiance to al Qaeda in 2013 before splitting with the global militant syndicate in July 2016