The death toll following a shooting at a Russian military base on the Ukraine border has risen to 22 after two gunmen from Tajikstan opened fire at fellow recruits reportedly in a row over religion. Initial reports announced that 11 soldiers had been killed and a further 15 injured on a training ground in the Belgorod region on the Ukrainian border, the Russian Defense Ministry revealed yesterday. But... 

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... 

Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiyah said on Wednesday his nation is considering direct military intervention in Syria to help jihadi mercenaries overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. “If a military intervention will protect the Syrian people from the brutality of the regime, we will do it,” Attiyah said. “If Qatar carries out its threat to militarily intervene in Syria, then we... 

The western-backed terrorist filth which has infested many parts of Syria in the last two years is being systematically exterminated and removed from its hideouts before the areas are sterilized by the Syrian Armed Forces, heroically waging a winning war against NATO’s mercenaries, special forces and Islamist terrorists they have brought into the fray. As the west becomes desperate and the common... 

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah (R) meets with Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron at the Royal Palace in Jeddah. British Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed his government’s intentions to get more deeply involved with the civil war in Syria by supplying terrorists fighting the country’s popular government with heavy weaponry. The UK government has already been promoting bloodshed in... 

Libyan National Transitional Council fighters The Libyan government apparently wants to share its successful experience of overthrowing the Gaddafi regime with like-minded Syrians. It has sent 600 of its troops to support local militants against the Assad regime, according to media reports. The fighters have joined the Free Syria Army, the militant group carrying out attacks on government forces in... 

A Libyan rebel points his rifle at a man accused of being a mercenary fighting for Muammar Gaddafi. Many have been arrested and accused of fighting for dictator, but claim they were press-ganged. Earlier this year, as revolution and siege ground Tripoli to a halt, Mehdi Hassan knew where to look for work. He would drive his taxi to a roundabout in the south-west of the capital and wait for foreigners... 

Mamoun Darkazanli German prosecutors have launched an investigation over a magazine report claiming CIA agents and employees of a notorious US private security firm had sought to assassinate a German-Syrian terror suspect. Berlin on Monday denied any knowledge of the CIA’s operation, several days after the report’s publication in Vanity Fair just before Christmas. The controversy centers...