Month: August 2016

Russia’s Defense Ministry has denied claims it carried out attacks on a civilian area in Aleppo’s Qaterji district. The claims were made by Western media after video and pictures of a wounded five-year-old boy from the area emerged online. “The critical plight that the children […]

The Russian Defense Ministry has said Black Sea Fleet warships have launched three cruise missile strikes on terrorist targets in Syria. A terrorist command post and munitions production site were destroyed. “As a result of the strikes a command post and a terrorist base near […]

A Jewish man has been stabbed by a Muslim in Strasbourg, France. He was taken to hospital and is in a stable condition, while the perpetrator was arrested. Police say the incident is not terrorism-related and that the attacker is suffering from psychiatric issues. The […]

French seaside resorts are one by one joining a widening taboo on a burkini, swimwear for Muslim women that covers the whole body except the face, feet and hands. Authorities name a number of reasons why clothes, which were designed to help followers of Islam […]

The fighting in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has intensified over the past fortnight. Despite that, RT’s Lizzie Phelan set out to see what’s changed in the country’s biggest city, wracked by violence, deprivation and fear. The correspondent spent about ten hours on the […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter suspended 235,000 accounts that promoted terrorism over the last six months, as part of a continuing effort to keep people from using the social network for extremist causes, the company said Thursday. “The world has witnessed a further wave of deadly, […]

NNA – Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, Gebran Bassil, met on Friday with Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, M. J. Akbar, over bilateral relations. In the wake of the meeting, the diplomat said that his country was aware of the difficult situation in […]

NNA – Civil Defense volunteers held a press conference at the protest tent set up off the border, threatening to escalate their move “because of procrastination in dealing with their case,” the NNA correspondent reported on Friday. One of the volunteers, Yousef Mallah, spoke at […]

BEIRUT: Residents of southern Lebanon marched Friday on the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms, raising the national flag there in protest of the Israeli army’s construction of a road in the area. The march was held in defiance to the Israeli military’s continuing presence in Shebaa Farms, […]