Clik here to view.
Putin at UN: We need a 'genuinely broad alliance against terrorism, just like...
Russian President Vladimir Putin just took the stage at the UN General Assembly for the first time in a decade, and he called for a "genuinely broad alliance against terrorism, just like the one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
One of the Russians seen fighting in Syria is a well-known militia leader...
A well-known Russian soldier implicated in war crimes in eastern Ukraine has now been spotted in Syria. Photos allegedly taken in Syria show Arseny Pavlov, better known by his nom de guerre Motorla,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obama meeting with Putin is a gift
An odd thing happened on President Barack Obama's way to New York for meetings at the UN with world leaders.He forgot to schedule a session with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Of course, New...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The West is walking into the abyss on Syria
Once again, Syria is making the headlines.As tens of thousands of desperate Syrians embark on their perilous journeys towards Europe, policymakers in the West are faced with yet another unintended...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'85 percent of what Putin said was unmitigated bulls---'
Russian President Vladimir Putin told the United Nations' General Assembly on Monday that there is a need for an international coalition to fight the Islamic State terror group and support the regime...
View ArticleClik here to view.
KGB defector: Russia killed the British spy found in a duffel bag
The death of Gareth Williams, a British spy who was found naked in a padlocked duffel bag in his bathtub, has remained a mystery for five years.Now a KGB defector says Russian intelligence was behind...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here's an intense toast between Obama and Putin in New York
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin were in New York City Monday to address the annual UN General Assembly.And the two world leaders shared a lunch together at UN...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russia has deployed at least one spyplane to Syria
Along with the 28 combat planes that have arrived at al-Assad International Airport via Iran hiding under Il-76 cargo planes last week, the Russian Air Force has deployed at least one Il-20 Coot...
View ArticleClik here to view.
6 more Russian fighter jets arrive in Syria through Iran and Iraq
Six Sukhoi Su-34 aircraft have eventually arrived at Latakia to join the Russian contingent already there.Images allegedly shot around the al-Assad International Airport clearly show one Russian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obama and Putin met on Syria but still don't agree on Assad's fate
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama met on the crisis in Syria but failed to resolve their dispute over the future role of Bashar...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A US-Russian arms treaty could be in trouble
Russia is feeling increasingly limited by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty as the United States continues to modernize its nuclear arsenal and develop its ballistic missile...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russia is trying to coax the US into sharing intel with Iraq, Iran, and Syria...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian and US leaders, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama, discussed information sharing on the crisis in Syria when they met in New York on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We now know more about Russian forces in Syria
Since publishing the most recent imagery of the Bassel al Assad air base in Syria on Sept. 20, Stratfor has been working with the imagery analysts at AllSource Analysis to obtain higher-resolution...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When Kremlin candidate loses election, even voters are surprised
IRKUTSK, Russia - When Communist Sergei Levchenko beat the incumbent from President Vladimir Putin's party to become governor of Irkutsk region in Siberia on Sunday, even the voters who backed him were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Both Putin and Obama are wrong on Syria
Having boldly deployed troops and planes on behalf of Syria's bloodstained dictatorship, Russian President Vladimir Putin mounted the podium of the U.N. General Assembly on Monday and called on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russia has established a seaborne lifeline for the Syrian regime
The Alexandr Tkachenko, an ageing ferry with a canary-yellow hull, usually carries people across the Kerch Strait, a bustling sea route and the only connection between Russia and Crimea, the peninsula...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'Putin has now given Obama the perfect cover to do nothing about Assad'
Russia's incursion into Syria and expanding influence throughout the Middle East have offered the Obama administration something it has sought since the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011: a way to stay...
View ArticleClik here to view.
TRUMP: ‘If Russia wants to go and fight ISIS, you should let them'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday said he supported Russian efforts to fight Islamic State militants in the Middle East, including Syria.Asked...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ukraine's president is not impressed with Russia's call for an anti-terrorism...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday derided Russia's call for the creation of an international antiterrorism coalition, saying the Russians inspire terrorism on their own doorstep and back...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Russia's parliament just granted Putin the right to deploy troops in Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian parliament on Wednesday unanimously granted President Vladimir Putin the right to deploy the country's military in Syria, a move a top Kremlin aide said related only to...
View Article