Delegates at a plenary meeting held as part of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). After leaving the Parliamentary Assembly, which Russian officials believe has lost its credibility as a platform for mature and equal dialogue, Moscow will focus on other global forums and may even reconsider its membership to the Council of Europe. “It is impossible for... 

The death of Argentina’s Federal Prosecutor Alberto Nisman who had accused the country’s President Cristina Kirchner of attempting to cover-up the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center back in 1994, stirred up a new dispute with the United States after Buenos Aires decided to carry out an independent investigation into the death and rejected the US Republicans’ demands to sever diplomatic... 

The Pentagon has expressed deep concern about the US eventually losing its military technological superiority over rivals such as China and Russia, and is urging NATO states to develop innovative weapons in close cooperation to optimize military spending. “I am very concerned about the increasing risk of loss of US military technological superiority,” Pentagon arms buyer Frank Kendall told a House... 

Generals say Israel faces greatest existential threat since establishment of the state. Israel has vowed a “disproportionate” response after two IDF soldiers were killed and seven wounded by an anti-tank missile fired by Hezbollah in the Har Dov area near the Lebanon border. The apparent attack follows the killing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi during an Israeli... 

A truly astonishing report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) states that a “massive killing operation” organized and funded by the Obama regime has been uncovered and is responsible for the deaths of at least 45 people, including a top US movie director and his family, numerous bankers and nearly the entire family of a top American computer expert. According... 

Tens of people have been killed in clashes between police forces and a the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the troubled southern Philippines. Security sources said at least six members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and 37 police officers were killed during a gun battle in the town of Mamasapano on the southern island of Mindanao, on Sunday. Several police forces and MILF members were... 

Following a disputed shelling in the strategic Ukrainian city of Mariupol last week, Obama said the United States will impose new sanctions on Russia. “We will continue to take the approach that we have taken in the past, which is to ratchet up the pressure on Russia,” Obama said during a news conference in New Delhi. “And I will look at all additional options that are available to us, short... 

At least nine people were killed and up to 20 injured in a shelling in Donetsk on Thursday morning. In the wake of the attack, conflicting reports emerged over the arrests of what local authorities call a ‘covert group.’ Residents of Donetsk’s Leninsky district heard shelling at about 08:30 local time, media report. Windows in the buildings near a tram stop were blown out. Locals say... 

Russia’s new sea-based cruise missiles reduce the military power of the United States on a vast geopolitical region from Warsaw to Kabul and from Rome to Baghdad. US President Barack Obama, speaking at the 69th session of the UN General Assembly, stated that Russia’s actions posed the largest threat to the world. According to Obama, Russia is more dangerous to the world than international... 

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on January 21, 2015, holds up a fragment of a bus in which 13 civilians were allegedly killed in a rocket attack by pro-Russia forces last week. Ukrainian president has accused Moscow of backing pro-Russia forces in the east of the country with thousands of troops. Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that more than 9,000 troops have been sent by Russia to support... 

Ukrainian army tanks in the Donetsk village of Peski. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has warned of a serious deterioration in security in Ukraine’s restive eastern regions amid Kiev’s latest offensive against pro-Russian forces there. “What our monitors have been reporting is a serious deterioration of the security situation in the past few days with an increase... 

Ukrainian troops have launched a massive assault on militia-held areas Sunday morning after an order from Kiev, a presidential aide said. The self-proclaimed Donetsk republic’s leader accused Kiev of trying to restart the war. The order to launch the offensive was issued early approximately at 6:00 am, according to Yury Biryukov, an aide to President Petro Poroshenko. “Today we will show HOW good... 

Once handling some five million passengers annually, Donetsk airport is now lying in ruins. Ukraine’s government forces have shelled several cities in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic over 30 times, pro-Russia sources say. The Donetsk news agency quoted the sources as saying that the attacks occurred early Saturday in populated areas on the outskirts of Donetsk, Gorlovka and... 

Satellite image showing the extent of damage in Doron Baga taken on 7 Jan 2015, following an attack by Boko Haram.   The scale of last week’s attack on the Nigerian towns of Baga and Doron Baga by Boko Haram militants has been shown graphically in before-and-after satellite images revealed by Amnesty International on Thursday. Satellite images, taken on January 2 and January 7, respectively,... 

Vladimir Putin has been silent lately. But if anyone thought he had been shamed into defeat or marginalized, then think again. In the last few hours Russia has announced two key strategic decisions that show they are not going to stand idly by while their economy and way of life are destroyed by Western forces. First, presumably in response to stiff sanctions leveled by the United States and the European...