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The Dutch Safety Board released this chilling animation of MH17 being hit...
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, was hit by a Buk surface-to-air missile over the eastern part of Ukraine, the Dutch Safety Board has concluded...
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Video shows the moment Russian-backed rebels realized they shot down a...
This post was originally published on July 17, 2015. The Dutch Safety Board released its final report on the MH17 crash on Tuesday. Footage from the MH17 disaster shows Russian-backed rebels handling...
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Turkey warns US and Russia against backing the Kurds in Syria
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has warned the United States and Russia it will not tolerate Kurdish territorial gains by Kurdish militia close to its frontiers in north-western Syria, two senior officials...
View ArticleInvestigators say flight MH17 was struck by a Russian-made surface-to-air...
A report from the Dutch Safety Board has concluded that a Russian-made missile struck Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, killing all 298 people on board.The Dutch Prime Minister has asked for Russia's...
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A brief history of Vladimir Putin’s unexpected rise to power
In late September, Russia intervened militarily in Syria in a major escalation of the 54-month war, turning an already thorny situation into something significantly more complex.Although why Russia got...
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Russia is creating an 'all-seeing eye' drone that can see through camouflage
Russia is creating a drone that can see beyond the electromagnetic spectrum of the human eye.The drone can automatically detect military equipment, including camouflaged and hidden objects, and...
View ArticleHow a struggling Soviet spy became the most powerful man in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has come a long way from the days when he was serving as an officer in the KGB. Here's a look at how he became one of the most powerful people in Russia's...
View ArticleThe CIA is supplying Syrian rebels with weapons to use against Russia
The CIA is supplying Syrian rebels with anti-tank weapons to fight Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's ground troops.The decision to help the rebels comes after growing frustration by the US with...
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Thousands of Iranian troops are now in Syria for ground offensives against...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army and allied Iranian and Hezbollah forces are preparing for a ground offensive against insurgents in the Aleppo area backed by Russian air strikes, two senior regional...
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Even Iranian politicians are arriving in Syria before a huge ground offensive...
A delegation of Iranian lawmakers arrived in Damascus on Wednesday in the build-up to a joint operation against insurgents in northwest Syria, and said U.S.-led efforts to fight rebels had failed.The...
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Iran is reportedly spending billions on military hardware from Russia and China
Iran has been stepping up the amount of military hardware it purchases from Russia and China in the weeks since the nuclear accord with world powers, according to a new report that has tracked the...
View ArticleRussia is being accused of bombing a school in Syria
Syrian rebels are saying that the Russian military just bombed a school in Idlib, Syria. "This is a school," a man said, pointing at a pile of rubble. "In two to three months we will rebuild it and...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 days that almost ended the world
In 1946 George Kennan, an American diplomat in the Soviet Union, wrote to the Truman State Department about his view of the USSR’s aggression. He thought the Soviets were “impervious to logic of...
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17 eerie photos of abandoned Soviet spaces
When Nikon approached photographer David de Rueda with the opportunity to help make his ultimate dream project come true, de Rueda knew he wanted to create something "post-apocalyptic and sci-fi."De...
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Here's the Russian jet that's terrorizing Syria's anti-Assad rebels
As the Syrian military begins its push to take back opposition-held areas in northwestern Syria, Russia has provided backing through an intensifying aerial campaign.Among the planes Moscow has used to...
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Russian media is not pleased with the reports on MH17
“The TASS news service went the conspiracy route, quoting Viktor Ozerov, the head of the Russian Federation Council Committee for Defense and Security saying, “The course of the investigation suggests...
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Syrian troops and Russian jets are launching an offensive that could help...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian army troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, launched an attack on rebel-held towns north of the city of Homs on Thursday, Syrian state television and a group which...
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Map shows how the big Russia-Iran offensive in Syria is having a rough start
Key Takeaway: The Syrian regime has not gained much terrain in the first week of its large-scale ground offensive against rebel forces, despite support from intensified Russian airstrikes and hundreds...
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MAP: Russian airstrikes in Syria are helping ISIS and Assad
Key Takeaway: Russia’s involvement in Syria is facilitating ISIS’s territorial gains, while also strengthening Assad. Russia is supporting the Syrian regime’s offensives in Latakia, the al-Ghab Plain,...
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Russia is thinking about taking over Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan
Russia, alarmed by increased activity by Islamist insurgents near its borders with Central Asia, may act to re-establish its control over Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan, a senior Russian defense...
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