Turkish media outlets are concerned that Russia is beefing up its military presence around the country following the shootdown of a Russian bomber over Syrian airspace, according to Hurriyet Daily News. In particular, it says, “Russia sent 14 helicopters to Armenia and deployed them to the Erebuni Air Base near the capital Yerevan on December 8.Seven of these helicopters are armored Mi-24 attack... 

Four Western coalition warplanes were spotted over the Deir az-Zor area in Syria on December 6, when a Syrian Army camp came under attack. No Russian warplanes were in the region, says the Russian Defense Ministry. “Russian aircraft were not on a mission in that area. All our flights in Syrian airspace are coordinated with air traffic control and the General Staff of the Syrian government’s armed... 

Scientists have found that the stones used for building England’s Stonehenge prehistoric monument were cut off from a large piece of rock in Pembrokeshire in Wales. A team of experts from British universities and museums say the stones were broken off larger rock faces in the Preseli hills using wooden wedges and taken to England’s Salisbury Plain. Their studies showed that the holes cut into... 

Three automakers from Sweden, Germany and France will resume operations in Iran when a July nuclear accord goes into effect, instead of moving to impoverished East-EU states to support their economy. Iran is also in talks with Italian and Japanese carmakers for cooperation but they still have to reach an agreement, he told reporters on the sidelines of an Iran-Finland trade forum in Tehran on Tuesday. “We... 

The North Korean leader has said the country now has a hydrogen bomb, according to the N. Korean central news agency, and is capable of using it along with nuclear warheads to defend its sovereignty. “We managed to become a great nuclear power capable of defending the independence and national dignity of our homeland by mighty nuclear and hydrogen strikes,” N. Korean leader Kim Jong-un was cited... 

An apocalyptic sounding new Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin has ordered the Federation’s most powerful and undetectable “black hole” submarine, Rostov-on-Don, to immediately arm its 3M-54 Калибр (Kalibr) cruise missiles with atomic warheads in preparation for their use in the Levant War Zone against the supporting nation states... 

Activist prankster Mark Dice hit the strip in San Diego once again this week to expose how lefty Americans will agree with anything so long as they think Hillary Clinton is behind it. This week, Dice sold the sheep members of the public on the idea that one of Hillary’s primary campaign promises is to lower the standard of living, and asked if they think it is a good campaign platform to run on. “I... 

Enough is enough! It seems the French are fed up with their government’s policy, that’s why France’s right-wing, anti-immigration, eurosceptic National Front party came out on top in six of 13 regions in the first round of the regional elections. The victory, described as a “historical breakthrough” by French and foreign political experts alike. While analysts are divided... 

Syria has announced plan to export more than 700,000 tons of citrus fruits to Russia after Moscow banned imports of Turkish fruit and vegetables in response to the downing of its bomber plane over Syria. A senior Syrian government official said on Tuesday that the measure aims to “fill the gap” left by Moscow’s ban on Turkish agricultural products, AFP reported. “We are preparing... 

Denmark has pledged to introduce the toughest anti-migration rules in Scandinavia, according to Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet quoted Danish Immigration and Integration Minister Inger Støjberg as saying that from now on, Denmark will have the strictest migration regulations among Europe’s Nordic countries. The decision arrived amid concrete steps... 

Not only is the Obama White House offended by Donald Trump’s political stance, it also doesn’t like his hair. “The Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin-of-history-like quality to it, from the vacuous sloganeering to the outright lies to even the fake hair. The whole carnival-barker routine that we’ve seen for some time now,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said on Tuesday. Earnest... 

An explosion at a bus stop in central Moscow has left at least four people injured. According to law enforcement forces speaking to RIA Novosti, the blast was caused by an unidentified explosive device, though sources have also indicated that the bomb was homemade. Moscow police are investigating the incident as an act of hooliganism. “An unknown explosive device was thrown into a group of people... 

In an effort to create a more inclusive environment, the University of Mississippi renamed its annual campus event “A Grand Ole Christmas” to “Hotty Toddy Holiday.” For more than six years, the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) has celebrated the start of the Christmas season with a festive event called “A Grand Ole Christmas.” This year, however, the event was renamed “Hotty Toddy... 

Militants of the Islamic State terrorist group (also known as Daesh) threaten to conduct a series of attacks in the United States and Russia. In a new video that appeared on the Internet, the militants said that France was only the beginning, and now is the turn for Russia and the USA to experience terror. The terrorists, who speak English in the video, promise that new attacks will take place in... 

Aisha, an immigrant from Dubai, United Arab Emirates went to Norway and claimed to be a refugee. Despite receiving 3,000 Kroner (400 Euros) a month and free housing without any kind of work, she complained that it was too cold, that she had to carry her own groceries, and that she didn’t like the food. “Honestly, I was shocked” she told NRK.no, “I thought Norway was more modern and more civilized....