The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is reporting today that a raid to remove from Yemen the two captured Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “assets” who are believed to have masterminded the downing of Flight 9268 over Egypt last Saturday, utilizing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, was “highly successful”, and once the Aerospace Forces “protected/guided” aircraft returned to Federation... 

Metrojet Flight 9268 was most likely taken down by an ISIS bomb, according to an official quoted by CNN today. “There is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane,” the official said. He added that U.S. intelligence has yet to reach a formal conclusion on the crash. Although the U.S. did not have credible or verified intelligence of a specific threat... 

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... 

A very curious Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that Chairman of The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), Alexander Bastrykin, has opened a single proceeding criminal case under Article 263, Part 3 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code on the fact of the Islamic State’s shootdown of Flight 9268 en route from Egypt to St. Petersburg... 

Obama’s decision to send Special Forces into Syria is being widely viewed as a US military escalation in the country. The troop dispatch also signals that the US trying to forestall Russian successes in wiping out Washington’s regime-change assets in Syria. In short, the US Special Forces are being used as “human shields” to curb Russian air strikes against anti-government mercenaries, many... 

Aviation experts now believe the Russia Airbus that crashed over the weekend was taken down by a bomb or a “force acting outwards from within.” The Director General of the Royal United Services Institute, Michael Clarke, said it was more likely the aircraft was taken down by a bomb than mechanical failure, according to the BBC. “Early reports said that the aircraft split into two and that suggests... 

US Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. US Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is “the consummate warmonger” who oversaw the destruction of Libya, an American writer and political analyst says. Daniel Patrick Welch made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Sunday while commenting on Clinton’s backing... 

The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is reporting today that the catastrophic destruction of Kolavia Flight 9268 that had departed from Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh in route to Saint Petersburg yesterday was due to its being struck by a portable surface-to-air missile device fired by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, and which these “barbarians” posted video of and took responsibility for in... 

The Kogalymavia airliner did not send an SOS call before it suddenly “disappeared off the radar.” A Russian passenger airliner crashed early Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula en route from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. A top Russian investigative committee has begun a criminal investigation into the crash. The Islamic State took responsibility for the downing. Russia,... 

US officials have confirmed today that special forces soldiers will be deployed on the ground in Syria, despite the fact that Obama promised he wouldn’t deploys ‘boots on the ground’. A senior administration official told the BBC that there will be “fewer than 50” forces deployed in the region to “train, advise and assist” vetted opposition forces. According to the official, this does... 

Islamic State terrorists have gained access to the production of chemical weapons, the head of the department for non-proliferation and arms control of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Ulyanov said, Pravda.Ru reports with reference to TASS. “By all accounts, the Islamic State group has gained access to technologies for the production of chemical weapons,” the official said. Ulyanov... 

Russian-led counterterrorism efforts are so successful that they are “unnerving” Washington, CCTV reported. As a result, last week US leadership decided to act so as to prevent Iraq from fostering ties with Moscow. The Chinese media outlet believes that the operation to free hostages in Northern Iraq followed this new logic. Last Thursday, US and Kurdish forces managed to free 70 people... 

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says a lot of weird things, but he got one issue right on Monday, Russian airstrikes against ISIL in Syria are a good thing. When asked about his vision of US foreign policy, Trump said that he’d make the US military so big and strong that no one would “mess with [the United States].” “If Russia wants to go into Syria and bomb... 

If Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia step into the Syrian conflict on the side of the Islamic State, this may trigger Third World War. Earlier, Qatari Foreign Affairs Minister, Khalid al-Attiyah, stated that his country could decide to start intervention in Syria. Qatar actively supports the militants opposing Syrian President Assad. It goes about such groups such Jabhat an Nusra, the Islamic State,... 

The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), a domestic intelligence agency, warns that Islamists are recruiting recently arrived illegal migrants at refugee centers. “We have seen signs that extreme Islamists have approached the reception centers and asylum seekers. They have been there to get contacts. Aside from that, it’s difficult to say what their specific purpose is,” Jørn Presterudstuen...