Eighty Swiss banks have agreed to pay the US fines totaling $1.36 billion in order to avoid court prosecution, according to the US Justice Department. After the investigation has been completed all the banks are required to cooperate in related criminal or civil proceedings, said the department. The US Justice Department began its Swiss Bank Program in 2013. It provided a way for Swiss banks to admit... 

MUOS-3 Navy communications satellite and Atlas-V rocket at pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, for launch on January 20, 2015. Despite John McCain’s profound displeasure, US defense officials are not inclined to abandon the RD-180 Russian rocket engines until 2021 or 2022 earliest. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the United States Air Force has become one of Russia’s... 

Russia has accused Turkey of military buildup on the Syrian border as it rejected claims of Moscow’s plan to establish a new airbase in the Arab country. The rebuttal followed remarks attributed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, suggesting Russia might be establishing a base in Qamishli. Erdogan “expressed alarm” after 200 Russian personnel were allegedly observed strengthening... 

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) this afternoon released an “urgent action report” to all of its commands stating that President Putin has just ordered 10 regiments of Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) troops, along with their Topol, Topol-M and Yars mobile atomic missile systems, to their “highest alert” status over fears that the Obama regime is preparing to unleash a “false flag” chemical... 

A terrifying new report released in the Kremlin today by the Federal Security Service (FSB) states that the current impasse between the Federation and Norway relating to Russia’s refusal to accept back into its borders Levant War Zone (Syria-Iraq) asylum seekers is due to a mysterious map discovered by Border Troops among the belongings of these illegal migrants that depicts a “Day of Judgment”... 

By reducing oil prices, Saudi Arabia is waging a secret war against Russia and Iran, according to political analyst Bassam Tahhan. In an interview with RT, political analyst Bassam Tahhan said that Saudi Arabia and the other countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council are trying to force down oil prices in order to harm Iran and a number of other oil-producing countries, including Russia. “A secret... 

The earth, humans’ only ship in the cosmic ocean, is engulfed by millions of space junk, which can cause serious damage to any national satellite, a signal which might be misconstrued as an attack launched by an adversary and provoke an armed conflict. In an article published by journal Acta Astronautica, Russian scientist Vitaly Adushkin argues that possible impacts from orbital debris, even tiny... 

The Russian Navy gave journalists an onboard tour of the Udaloy-class anti-submarine destroyer that has been deployed to the Syrian port of Latakia to assist other Russian warships in their Mediterranean mission. The Vice-Admiral Kulakov is one of eight frigates of its class currently in service in the Russian Navy. Its main purpose is to detect and destroy enemy submarines, meaning its current Syrian... 

The Federal Security Service (FSB) is shockingly reporting today that it has just added former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to its terrorist sponsor watchlist after it was discovered this week that one of the top monetary contributors to her presidential campaign is a suspected agent of Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) who has funneled hundred-of-millions of... 

A grim Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials were “stunned” last week after a Turkish Air Force fighter jet operating within its own airspace fired upon and downed two CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters being flown by the US Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) over Kurdish held territory in the eastern Syrian... 

US presidential candidate, Republican Senator Rand Paul, put forward an initiative to tighten the rules for issuing visas to Russian citizens. The politician also suggested including Russia on the list of so-called “highly dangerous countries,” from where terrorists may enter the territory of the United States. The project that the senator develops is called the “Security Act.”... 

A nuclear watchdog group warns that, despite efforts to secure nuclear material, nations are still vulnerable to theft, as well as acts of sabotage or cyberattacks, which could enable terrorists to obtain nuclear materials or trigger a dangerous meltdown. Twenty-four states “still have one kilogram (2.2 pounds) or more of weapons-usable nuclear materials…[and] nearly 2,000 metric tons (4.4 million... 

A new report circulating in the Kremlin today presented to the Security Council (SC) by the Internal Security Directorate of the Federal Security Service (FSB) states that “great fear and tension” has arisen in the country due to prophecies of an impending European apocalypse related to the United States Army contracting with 17 companies last week, including major corporations, for $900 million... 

The US Department of the Treasury on Sunday imposed new sanctions on Iran. The US Department of the Treasury says it has imposed new sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program. The Treasury Department made the announcement in a statement issued on Sunday, only a day after sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear energy program were lifted. The statement said five Iranian citizens and a network... 

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that the Obama regimes “master plan” for dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran has been “completely destroyed” after special naval forces belonging to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Sepāh) during the past fortnight captured two “highly armed and sophisticated” United States Navy Riverine Command Boats (RCB) under...