The latest US sanctions and the Russian retaliatory response have resulted in a torrent of speculations in the official media and the blogosphere – everybody is trying to make sense of a situation which appears to make no sense at ...

Government forces, led by the Syrian Arab army (SAA) Tiger Forces liberated more villages on the west bank of the Euphrates River in Raqqah province and entered the northwestern part of Deir Ezzor province. Last weekend, the Tiger Forces and ...

The US Treasury Department has announced that it is sanctioning Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, describing the Constituent Assembly elections held in the country on Sunday as “illegitimate.” In an update on Monday, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control ...

More than 750 American diplomats will have to leave Russia as a result of Washington’s own policies, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in an exclusive interview with the Rossiya 1 TV channel. “The American side has made a move ...

Troubled cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e has said its downtime was due to “FBI agents entering its data center.” In a post in Russian on BitcoinTalk Monday, BTC-e, which has been down for almost a week, said it had struggled for six ...

Voiceover by Harold Hoover On Wednesday, Syrian government forces liberated important hills southwest of Sukhna and established fire control over this strategic ISIS-held town in the province of Homs.  The advance was heavily supported by Russian and Syrian warplanes and ...

The Republican-controlled Congress can’t unite around Trump’s legislative agenda, but with Democrats they are in unison when it comes to punishing Russia for alleged meddling in the 2016 election. Russia will brush off new sanctions as it did three years ...