Bakkour was eventually released by the hostage takers ... forces and armed Sunni groups in recent months, following the fall of the Assad regime. with Israel blamed for inflaming tensions. Elsewhere, ...

But the former insurgents leading Syria’s transitional government since Assad’s fall have maintained relations with Moscow and have not forced a complete exit of Russian military forces from ...

the aging commander of the Russian Ground Forces. He has been replaced by a younger officer with extensive combat experience in Ukraine. This decision could help the Russian army as it develops and ...

However, Russia’s state news agency TASS reported around the same time, citing a statement from the defense ministry, that Russian forces did strike a Ukrainian equipment staging site in the ...

Russian security forces raided a capital city swingers club in the early hours of Thursday on suspicion of “LGBT propaganda.” While it’s unclear whether anyone was arrested during the raid ...

Russia's artillery strikes were bizarrely ineffective in the early stages of the war, but that's changed. Analysts say several major overhauls have helped Russia make its kill chain faster and ...

Russian forces have regularly targeted settlements in Donetsk Oblast with artillery and airstrikes, often resulting in civilian casualties. During the strike around 11 a.m., Russian forces dropped ...

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces denied Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim Saturday that Russian forces had fully retaken the Kursk region, where Ukraine launched an offensive ...

Zelenskyy said that Russian forces carried out 96 assault operations along the front line, shelled Ukrainian positions more than 1,800 times and used hundreds of drones during the course of the ...

Russian forces also launched drone attacks on the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine and the city of Kharkiv in the northeast, regional officials said. The attacks came as both Russia and Ukraine ...