A grim Federal Security Service (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that the investigation into the deadly Flydubai Flight 981 crash this past Saturday (19 March) at Rostov Airport in Rostov-on-Don has now been turned over to The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (SLEDKOM) as a “special criminal case” after evidence was found this plane was destroyed by two shoulder... 

China’s foreign minister on Friday reiterated Beijing’s opposition to the US deployment of an advanced missile defense system to South Korea, saying the sophisticated technology could be used to target China. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, speaking in Munich, said Beijing has urged the United States to abandon plans to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) to South... 

In actions more reminiscent of the Cold War than modern times the foreign military intelligence directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) is reporting today that the Northern Fleet’s Yekaterinburg nuclear powered submarine successfully fired a RSM-54 Sineva (SS-N-23 Skiff in NATO classification) ballistic missile from the Barents Sea across the North Pole into the atmosphere over the Pacific...