A suspected bomb blast inside a train in the St. Petersburg Metro killed ten passengers and injured dozens of others. The entire Metro system was shut down as bomb squads and rescuers responded to the emergency. The explosion happened as the train was travelling between the stations Tekhnologichesky Institut and Sennaya Ploshchad of the St. Petersburg Metro, the National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC)... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said in an interview that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, who met with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, also met with advisers to the Hillary Clinton campaign. “Well, if you look at some people connected with Hillary Clinton during her campaign, you would probably see that he had lots of meetings of that kind,” Dmitry Peskov told CNN’s... 

Three Turkish military men were killed and eleven others were injured as a result of the unintended attack conducted by Russian Air Force in the area of Al-Bab, Syria. According to representatives of the Turkish General Staff, Russian warplanes incidentally struck the building, where Turkish servicemen were staying as part of the Shield of the Euphrates Operation. Moscow and Ankara will conduct joint... 

Russia sees the deployment of US tanks and other military vehicles, along with army personnel, as a threat to its national security and interests, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. “We see this as a threat. These actions pose a threat to our interests and security,” Peskov told journalists on Thursday, stressing “especially, when a third country is beefing up its military presence... 

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... 

Former U.S. diplomat James Jatras warns that Hillary Clinton will start numerous “regional wars” if she is elected, including a potential nuclear confrontation with Russia, China or both. “Hillary has never met a war she does not like. She is a true believer in the idea that the US can, as this vanguard of all progressive humanity, use military force to transform the world. We are looking at... 

The pilots linked to the downing of the Russian Su-24 jet in November are among those who were arrested for plotting Friday’s attempted military coup in Turkey, Turkey’s Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag confirmed Tuesday. “Among those arrested for plotting the military coup are the pilots who shot down the Russian jet,” CNN Turki cited Bosdag as saying. Earlier, mayor of the... 

Germany has no alterative than to reconcile itself with NATO’s strategy, experts say, commenting on Berlin’s plans to include Russia in its top ten major threats list. However, it is unlikely that NATO will use Germany as a ‘battering ram’ against Russia, they say. Berlin’s decision to include Russia in its new White Paper on security policy as a “threat”... 

Israeli warplanes have repeatedly violated Syrian airspace and bombed targets inside the country which is fighting foreign-backed militants. Russian forces in Syria have fired at least twice on Israeli military aircraft, Israel’s top-selling newspaper says. The Yedioth Ahronoth daily on Friday gave no dates or locations for the incidents nor any indication Israeli planes were hit. Separately,... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has personally inspected an array of new armored vehicles designed for the country’s special forces. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the president was presented with the hardware after it was inspected by a Federal Security Service panel. Peskov didn’t elaborate on what types of vehicles the president did inspect, though LifeNews apparently identified... 

The Russian prime minister has warned that the involvement of foreign troops in Syria could result in a “new world war” amid plans by Saudi Arabia and its allies to potentially deploy ground troops there. Dmitry Medvedev made the remarks in an interview with the German Handelsblatt business daily, due to be published on Friday. He said all powers must sit at the negotiating table to forge... 

“The president is mobilized, fully mobilized, mobilized to the extent that circumstances demand,” Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on Saturday. “The circumstances are unprecedented. The gauntlet thrown down to Russia is unprecedented. So naturally the reaction is in line with this threat,” he told Russia’s “News on Saturday” TV program. In addition to placing S-400... 

A Russian Su-24 fighter has been shot down in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding the plane hadn’t violated Turkish airspace and was flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters. “During the flight, the aircraft was flying within the borders of Syria, which was registered by objective monitoring data,” the ministry said, adding that the aircraft was “supposedly shot down from the... 

President Vladimir Putin has agreed with the Federal Security Service to halt all Russian flights to Egypt following an October 31 passenger plane crash in Sinai that killed all 224 people on board. “As long as we haven’t established the causes of the incident, I consider it appropriate to suspend the flights of Russian aircraft to Egypt. This primarily applies to the tourist flow,” FSB... 

British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that neither he, nor his experts can “be sure that it was a terrorist bomb that brought down that Russian plane” and the decision to suspend flights to and from Sharm el-Sheikh was made on a presumption that it was the “more likely than not outcome.” The comments came during a joint news conference with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt following...