Month: October 2016

President Vladimir Putin’s high-profile military deployments aim to showcase Russian power in any global confrontation with the West, NATO officials say, but the alliance will not seek to match Moscow’s actions. Curtis Scaparrotti, the U.S.-led alliance’s top commander, told allied defense ministers on Wednesday that […]

Sputnik spoke in an interview with some of the residents of villages which have been recently liberated from under Daesh control near Mosul, Iraq. The citizens recalled the horrors they went through under the terrorists’ control and how they managed to survive. Fezile Mustafa a […]

Rapidly aging in orbit, US Air Force (USAF) weather satellites are dropping like flies. Since 2004, two of the USAF’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites have broken up in orbit. On Monday, the military branch admitted that a third, identified as DMSP Flight 12, […]

Anti-satellite weaponry is possible, something which should be reckoned with when planning possible military operations, defense expert Vasily Kashin told Sputnik China. An artist’s concept of a ground / space-based hybrid laser weapon, 1984 © Photo: Wikipedia Star Wars Reboot: US Sets Stage for Space-Based […]

After several years of tests, the US Air Force Space Command assumed control of a telescope that monitors the Earth’s orbit on Tuesday. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) transferred operations of the Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) to the Air Force during a […]

Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Qassem Soleimani has arrived in Hashd al-Sha’abi (popular forces) operations room in Mosul to play his advisory role in anti-ISIL campaign in Iraq, Arab media reported on Wednesday. “Hashd al-Sha’abi will […]

Federal data showing annual accidental gun deaths in Tennessee soared to 105 from just 19 propelled a fierce firearms control campaign, but it turned out the stats were about as accurate as a two-dollar pistol. The numbers, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, […]

L’indépendance du Liban a pu se faire en 1943, à cause des rivalités entre alliés anglais et français, mais leur victoire sur les puissances fascistes leur permit, non seulement, d’installer leurs hommes au pouvoir dans la plupart des pays arabes, mais aussi, d’appuyer l’existence d’un […]

El gobierno libanés realizó su última sesión antes de previsiblemente quedar en funciones tras la votación del 31 de octubre en el parlamento para elegir al nuevo presidente, cargo que todo indica ocupará Michel Aoun. Saad Hariri, líder del partido sunnita Mustaqbal que lidera el […]