Heightened tensions between the US and Russia did not seem to greatly concern an affable President-elect Donald Trump, who took to Twitter to praise Russian President Vladimir Putin’s limited response to President Barack Obama’s newly enacted sanctions. In response to President Obama’s decision to expel Russian diplomats and impose more sanctions on Russia, Russian President Putin has so far... 

Despite a glaring lack of evidence to support allegations that Russia interfered in the US presidential election, the White House has announced that they will be imposing sanctions on the nation. On Thursday, the US sanctioned six Russian individuals, including the head of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate, as well as five entitities. The US is also expelling 35 Russian diplomats, who now... 

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that since the start of Russia’s aerial campaign in Syria, Russian warplanes have launched 71,000 airstrikes and eliminated 35,000 terrorists. The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed over 700 terrorist training camps in Syria during its campaign, Shoigu said. “Since the start of the operation, Russian jets have conducted 17,800 sorties, launching... 

An US military underwater drone recently seized by China in the waters of the South China Sea is just one small instance of American hostility in the area, according to a recent op-ed. To China’s chagrin, the discovery of the waterborne drone is another example of US efforts to maintain control of the region, deploying unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) as a “power enhancer.” In an... 

CNN called the Berlin Christmas attack a “truck crash” at first, just like they did in Nice, France earlier this year. The mainstream media did the exact same thing when they blamed the Nice terrorist attack on the truck and not the terrorist driver. CNN reported “Truck rams crowd; 84 dead in Nice,” obviously without mentioning the ideology inspiring the driver in the headline. CBC... 

The top US military official in the Pacific has warned Beijing off taking control over the disputed South China Sea, while an American think tank has published photos it says prove that China has installed weapons on seven separate manmade islands in the disputed maritime route. “We will not allow a shared domain to be closed down unilaterally no matter how many bases are built on artificial... 

A rapidly-increasing civilian death toll resulting from Saudi Arabia’s military campaign in Yemen has prompted the White House to halt the sale of weapons to Riyadh. Washington announced that instead it will shift focus to improving target practice in the kingdom and training the Saudi Air Force. In the 20 months since the Saudis, at the behest of Yemen’s exiled president, became involved in the... 

A sobering Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin’s ordering to full combat alert status yesterday of the feared S-400 Triumf air defense missile systems in the Western Military District along the Federations entire border with NATO aligned nations was in direct response to the “Christmas Threat” issued against Russian military and civilian... 

Amid heightened security concerns surrounding the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017, reports have surfaced indicating an increased recruitment effort by an Islamic terror organization targeting English-speaking operatives. Security analysts have been closely monitoring communications among these members, who allegedly plan large-scale attacks on the day of... 

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone on Friday with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, a transition team spokeswoman said, in a move likely to infuriate China and expected to complicate relations. The call, confirmed by Trump transition spokeswoman Hope Hicks, was the first such contact with Taiwan by a president-elect or president since President Jimmy Carter adopted a one-China policy... 

Next month, Donald J. Trump, with hand on Bible, will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Or will he? The recent talk about recounting votes and ‘faithless electors’ suggests this highly contentious power struggle is far from over. In fact, it may be just beginning. Anybody who believes Hillary Rodham Clinton has been sent to the political graveyard by a Manhattan real... 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statement that his goal in Syria was to end the rule of Bashar Assad has caused consternation in the Kremlin, with officials saying it contradicted previous assurances and was out of sync with Moscow’s take on the situation. “The statement was indeed news, this is a very serious statement. [It] is in discord with the previous [statements] in general... 

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Turkish Army entered Syria to end the rule of President Bashar Assad, whom he accused of terrorism and causing the deaths of thousands. “We entered [Syria] to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad who terrorizes with state terror. [We didn’t enter] for any other reason,” the Turkish president said at the first Inter-Parliamentary Jerusalem Platform Symposium... 

An alarming Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today is expressing “astonishment/amazement” over a desperate Hillary Clinton “money grab scheme” that is causing chaos among the American electorate—and that her US supporting mainstream media propagandists will not tell the truth about, and could lead to civil war. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in... 

Four ISIS gunmen were killed today after they opened fire on Israeli soldiers in their first attack on the occupied Golan Heights. The Israeli soldiers were targeted with machine gun fire and mortars but were unhurt and fired back. But the gunmen – believed to come from a group called Shuhada al-Yarmouk, which is affiliated to ISIS – were killed by an Israeli air strike on their vehicle. Israel...